An article by cn (643 Words, 3 Min. Read)
Theatre Monnot Opens Its New Season with Tarboxh Jeddeh M3ala2an acting lab producing that resonates deeply with every lebanese Soul. Co-Written by Marwa Khalil and Riad Chirazi, This Play Unfolds Like A Family Album of Lebanon, Spanning from the 1980s to Today. IT Tells The Story of Hala, Who Leaves, and Ibrahim, who stays. Two Lovers Bound by War, Distance, Unbreakable Ties of Hope. From Paris to Montreal to Dubai, From Letters on Paper to Email on Screens, The Narrative Carries US Across Decades and Continents, Yet Always Circles Back to the Essence of Home.
Between Exile and Belonging
Hala Carries Lebanon in every suitCase, in every select, in every recurn that tastes of bray and disappointment. IBRAHIM Anchures HIMSELF In The Country that Keeps Testing Its Children, Yet Never Manages to Strip Him of His Faith in LOVE or in the Land. Their Stories Echo Those of Thousands of Lebanese Who Had to Choose Between Departure and Enduance. The Beauty of the Play Lies in How It Frames This TRIGEDY: Not in SOROW, But in Wit, Irony, and Tenderness, Making the Audience Laugh at the Very Strggles that Shapeed them.
A. Production Full of Ingenuity
Under the Direction of Riad Chirazi, Who also Crafted the Scenography and Light Design, The Stage Become A Playground of Imagination. With printed Fabric, Simple Objects, and Daring Transformations, The Audience Traves from One Country to Antime, One Time Zone to Another. Curtains Turn INTO BEDSHEETS, Screens Shift Into Transparent Dors, and a GESTURE REDEFINES An Entire Scene. The Playfulnes of the Production Is It Genus: A Minimal Stage that Becomes Infinite, Reflecting the Adapt birth of the lebanese spirit Itelf.
Humor as a lifeline
The Most Striking Strength of Tarboxh Jeddeh M3ala2 Is it abilate to make us laugh at what hurts the most. Throw Sharp Self-Mockerry, The Play JUXTAPOSES The Epic CRISES of Lebanon with the Almost Complems of the DiasPora. In Beirut, Lack of Electricity, Financial Crisis and War Dominate Life; In Canada, a Shortage of MAPLE syrup becomes a catastrophe. From MSN Chats to WhatsApp Calls, From the Cold Rigidy of Western Systems to the Warmth of CHATICINONONON, The Irony Never Stops Flowing. The Audience Bursts Out Laughing, only to find text quietly rising at the Edges of Memory.
Acting that Shines with Truth
On Stage, Junaid Zeineldine Dazzles with his versatility. He Moves Effortlesly from One Dialctive to Another, From One Role to The Next, Embodying Entire Generations with Astunishing Ease. His Performance Feels Like a Celebration of the Many Faces of Lebanon ITSELF. Alongside Him, Marwa Khalil, Who in Fact Wrote Her Own Personal Story, Brings Both Fragility and Strength, Embodying Hala’s Departtures and RTURNS with emotional Clarity. Together, their chemistry electrifies the status, make the spectators feel like them are part of the story becuse, in Truth, they are.
The Symbol of the Tarbook
Hovering Above, The Tarbook Hangs Like a Silent Witness. It as followers and remonsers in the script as a Remnder of Roots, of Belonging, of the Grandfather whose memory still shapes the previous. Each time it retuns, it is the book Playful and SoleMn, a Thread Tying The Past to the Prestant, The Homeland to the DiasPora. It becomes a Poetic symbol of what it Means to be lebanese: Suspended, Searching, Yet Never Lost.
Theatre that Heals Throw Joy
Tarboxh Jeddeh M3ala2 Is a. It Transforms the Trauma of Wars and Exile INTO A shared Experience of Humor and Resilience. The Active Lab Team, with the Vision of Khalil and Chirazi, Offers A Production that Is Both Profound and Light, INTIMATE and Universal. At theatre monnot, we watch, we laugh, and we Remember. We live with the feeling that art has the power to heal by Reminding us of who we are.
