Reappropriating the iconography of “America” as portrayed in Melville's Moby-Dick, the New York-based Radiohole offers in Fluke what Steve Luber dubs a hyperreal performance. The hyperreal is also what happened to Sara Brady when she rode through Dublin with the international trio Rimini Protokoll as they reimagined the journey as a trek from Bulgaria to Ireland. The last Critical Act takes place in Tangier where Khalid Amine found Zoubeir Ben Bouchta's Lalla J'mila a negotiation of the terrains of law, gender, and “place-specific” theatre.

Around the centrally placed mosque, an Arabo-Islamic city radiates outwards in a series of circles. Al-halqa performance is a free and licensed expressive behavior situated at the medina gates and marketplaces. Some al-halqa-type performances have been transferred to theatre buildings-bringing both new possibilities and difficult contradictions.