Nadim Bahsoun and Mona al-Yafi blend dance and theater in "My Night in Beirut." (Credit: Marie-Clemence David)
The stage is set: two characters pierce through its total darkness like apparitions in a flash. The recorded voice of a man rings out, recounting a mundane, administrative ordeal: renewing a passport in Lebanon. A process as ever Kafkaesque: an endless line and three sleepless nights to ensure a slot, the key to accessing an official entrusted with getting the job done.Meanwhile, the dancer and choreographer Nadim Bahsoun moves around the stage, his body bending, unfolding, twisting, falling and rebounding. On repeat. Lebanese opera abroad 'Antar wa Abla' in Abu Dhabi: Lebanese opera makes its way to the international stage A festival revealing young talentsThe play My Night in Beirut, written by Mona al-Yafi and directed by her in collaboration with Bahsoun, has just won the Lyceum Prize at the Impatience Festival in Paris, the...
The stage is set: two characters pierce through its total darkness like apparitions in a flash. The recorded voice of a man rings out, recounting a mundane, administrative ordeal: renewing a passport in Lebanon. A process as ever Kafkaesque: an endless line and three sleepless nights to ensure a slot, the key to accessing an official entrusted with getting the job done.Meanwhile, the dancer and choreographer Nadim Bahsoun moves around the stage, his body bending, unfolding, twisting, falling and rebounding. On repeat. Lebanese opera abroad 'Antar wa Abla' in Abu Dhabi: Lebanese opera makes its way to the international stage A festival revealing young talentsThe play My Night in Beirut, written by Mona al-Yafi and directed by her in collaboration with Bahsoun, has just won the Lyceum Prize at the Impatience Festival in Paris, the...
