Lee Serle, Lamia Abi Azar and Junaid Sarieddine on the stage at Madina in "Three Verses of Solitude." (Credit: Zoukak)
Dense on every level — text, direction, performance, dance, sound, music, lighting, scenography — Three Verses of Solitude mirrors the noise and clutter of contemporary life, with its speed, its promises of an “easy life” and its communication tools that overwhelm us with solitude and isolation.The play returns to theater’s original purpose: trust, contemplation, the yearning for intimate freedom, and the staging of a world full of labyrinths, tragedies and successive shocks — in plain language, after meaning and speech have been lost amid a frenzy of bloodshed. The script, built on personal experiences of loneliness, pits the conscious self against its shadow, the imaginary, the real, the past and the present. The audience becomes essential, like sound, music, dance and the text itself — a deeply poetic and philosophical one. The...
Dense on every level — text, direction, performance, dance, sound, music, lighting, scenography — Three Verses of Solitude mirrors the noise and clutter of contemporary life, with its speed, its promises of an “easy life” and its communication tools that overwhelm us with solitude and isolation.The play returns to theater’s original purpose: trust, contemplation, the yearning for intimate freedom, and the staging of a world full of labyrinths, tragedies and successive shocks — in plain language, after meaning and speech have been lost amid a frenzy of bloodshed. The script, built on personal experiences of loneliness, pits the conscious self against its shadow, the imaginary, the real, the past and the present. The audience becomes essential, like sound, music, dance and the text itself — a deeply poetic and philosophical...
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