Kabel

What causes the people we love most to betray us? What is the consequence of such a betrayal? In a world première, the Matsena brothers bring their reimagined telling of the classic sibling rivalry to Sadler’s Wells East. Through a mix of movement and text, KABEL delves deep into the emotions of love, jealousy, joy and rage.

Exploring the beauty and brutality of a fated clash between two brothers born of the same blood, we are transposed to the joyful beginnings of childhood as they build a seemingly unbreakable bond. Then, onto adolescence where favour bears seed to jealousy. And finally, manhood. In this final stage, the warmth of brotherhood is a distant memory—in its place lies silence, tension, an inevitable storm.

Kabel looks at the resonance that the first murder in human history has in our lives today.