Cynthia Karam and Joseph Zaitouni accurately portray the complex characters of Madame Nadia and Bilal in "Jarret ghaz spéciale." (Credit: Nour Chebli)
Presented at the Monnot Theater as part of the Beirut Spring Festival and in homage to the assassinated journalist Samir Kassir, the play "Jarret ghaz spéciale" opens a wide field of intimate stories.It exhumes buried pains, revives bitter memories of wars, forced displacements, kidnappings and imposed silences on two neighboring countries long merged under the name "Bilad al-Sham."On stage, Lebanon and Syria — partners or enemies, depending on the times — come to life through two characters: Bilal, a Syrian gas cylinder delivery man in Beirut's neighborhoods, and Madame Nadia, a French-speaking, solitary and arrogant Lebanese bourgeois, living in a Christian neighborhood of the capital. Art in the North Stereo Kawalis remembers in Tripoli: A pop-up of memory, dust and light The Lebanese and Syrian...
Presented at the Monnot Theater as part of the Beirut Spring Festival and in homage to the assassinated journalist Samir Kassir, the play "Jarret ghaz spéciale" opens a wide field of intimate stories.It exhumes buried pains, revives bitter memories of wars, forced displacements, kidnappings and imposed silences on two neighboring countries long merged under the name "Bilad al-Sham."On stage, Lebanon and Syria — partners or enemies, depending on the times — come to life through two characters: Bilal, a Syrian gas cylinder delivery man in Beirut's neighborhoods, and Madame Nadia, a French-speaking, solitary and arrogant Lebanese bourgeois, living in a Christian neighborhood of the capital. Art in the North Stereo Kawalis remembers in Tripoli: A pop-up of memory, dust and light The Lebanese and Syrian...