Director
Country: Syria
Genre: Documentary Theater
Duration: 1hr 30 min
Language: French and Arabic
About:
How do you create and engage in theatre when the reality that you are attempting to grasp is constantly affected by violent changes, heading towards its unstoppable dissipation? How do you do theater in times of war when you are no longer at home in your country? For whom do you do theater here? Under Low Skies fluctuates between two pathways, two journeys. It is both a documentary theater performance based on a saga and a fragmentary text.
The play depicts a Syrian documentary filmmaker named Jamal, who has been living in France for several years just like Wael, the author hims. Jamal feels trapped and unable to create images: “How can I look, simply look at the present, when I don’t own a past anymore?” Obsessed by the idea of having lost his past and feeling powerless in the face of abandoned and destroyed places disappearing from his memory, Jamal relates how his childhood places have disappeared, the houses he used to visit have been abandoned and that the people who constituted his small personal world in Damascus are now scattered in different countries across the world. Two styles of writing, two registers serve to create this dialogue between the intimate and the political, converging toward one subject: a territory that is constantly fleeing.
Cast & Credits:
- Playwright and director: Wael Ali
- With: Sharif Andoura, Nanda Mohammad
- Scenography and Costumes: Bissane Al Charif
- Dramaturgy and Translation: Chrystèle Khodr
- Lights and Technical Management: Camille Mauplot
- Video and Image: Ghazi Frini and Bissane Al Charif
- Music Research: Yazan Charif
- Music and Sound Creation: Akkad Nizam Edine and Basile Pflug
- Video and Stage Management: Basile Pflug
Previous Tours:
2-15 April 2019
the Weimar National Theater, Germany.
15-28 April & 27 May-9 June2019
La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille, France.
June 2019
2 performances at the Naples Festival, Italy.(Dates TBC)
July 2019
2 performances at Shubbak Festival, London, UK.
Aug. 2019
2 performances at the Weimar festival, Germany & 2 performances at the LOOP festival, Athens (Greece)
Oct. 2019
2 performances at the One Dance Week Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Oct. 2019
2 performances at the One Dance Week Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Nov. 2019
2 performances at Bozar Brussels, Belgium, 2 performances at the Dancing on the Edge Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands & 2 other performances at the festival Les Rencontres à l'Échelle, Marseille, France.
