A Kind of Alaska

Harold Pinter,

directed by Souha Aloul, 2003

LAU Gulbenkian Theater, Beirut

After 20 years in a coma, Debora wakes up to discover that everything around her has changed, but still, life has not changed. She preferred to stay away, so she got back to her Alaska white space,to the world she created.

Act without Words

Samuel Beckett

directed by Maral Mikirditsian, 2003

LAU Gulbenkian Theater, Beirut

Life is an endless, useless struggle. It begins with agony and ends as it began, flat, absurd and doomed to failure. Time becomes the space; separated into three parts, a space for each character, they struggle to reach the water barrel as the cello player travels the length of the stage with a static monotonous speed until the end of the act.

The Chairs

Eugène Lonesco,

directed by Rana Kaboot, 2002

LAU Gulbenkian Theater, Beirut

Waiting for the speaker to come, the main character and his wife are receiving guests. The speaker did not show up but instead, a fish was thrown on the stage to die underneath the gazes of the audience.

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

directed by Abeer Yafi, 2003

LAU Gulbenkian Theater, Beirut

ULg Théâtre Royal Universitaire Liégeois, Liège

Gregor escapes life, work and family pressure; he went into a voluntary isolation against the suffering which came upon him from human relationships. After his metamorphosis he imprisoned himself in his room, which gets narrower with depth as the perspective lines approaches to reach the vanishing point (square) on the background wall of the theater.

La Valise

Greek mythology,

directed by Farah Nehmeh, 2002

Théâtre Béryte USJ, Beirut

It’s the image of the ‘female’ left alone, waiting for her ‘male’ to get back, or afraid he might leave. Three female characters are facing the fear of waiting, remembering or being abandoned.

Solo or Solo

Written and directed by Hicham Jaber

Madina Theater, Beirut 2003

Théâtre Monnot USJ, Beirut 2004

After the death of his mother the solo character on stage suffers from sever psychotic symptoms of love, hate, sexual frustration, and paranoia. He isolates himself in His mother’s house that he rarely gets out from, it’s a wide closed space with a closet where he can cry and a shower that he hates to go into.

What, Where?

Samuel Beckett,

directed by Vartan Avakian, 1999

LAU Gulbenkian Theater, Beirut

Thrown up on stage, the main character found himself in an electronic and digital age, he has to chose between retrying or aborting; either way he will fail. 

>:/Retry, abort, fail?