Lamia Abi Azar, on the right, shares the stage with Junaid Sarieddine and Maya Zbib (behind the aquarium). (Credit: Randa Mirza)
Real tears are shed on the seats of Zoukak Theatre. In Stop Calling Beirut, memory weeps in private. Actors Lamia Abi Azar, Maya Zbib, and Junaid Sarieddine perform on a set designed by Hussein Baydoun: a glass-and-water aquarium that serves as a liquid coffin, echo chamber, and memory box. There’s no gratuitous nostalgia here — only a methodical dissection of generational memory, one shaped by war, lost illusions, and unconditional love for a drifting city.The play opens with a tragedy: the 2012 drowning of Ziad Abi Azar, Lamia and Omar’s brother, an artist and Zoukak member. Grief becomes the starting point of a historical rewind, back to a city once bursting with promise, utopias and contradictions. From family to public, everyone finds echoes of their own story in this emotional journey. Read more Dining with the cosmos: Inside...
Real tears are shed on the seats of Zoukak Theatre. In Stop Calling Beirut, memory weeps in private. Actors Lamia Abi Azar, Maya Zbib, and Junaid Sarieddine perform on a set designed by Hussein Baydoun: a glass-and-water aquarium that serves as a liquid coffin, echo chamber, and memory box. There’s no gratuitous nostalgia here — only a methodical dissection of generational memory, one shaped by war, lost illusions, and unconditional love for a drifting city.The play opens with a tragedy: the 2012 drowning of Ziad Abi Azar, Lamia and Omar’s brother, an artist and Zoukak member. Grief becomes the starting point of a historical rewind, back to a city once bursting with promise, utopias and contradictions. From family to public, everyone finds echoes of their own story in this emotional journey. Read more Dining with the cosmos:...