The play "Birds" by the Lebanese-Canadian author Wajdi Mouawad deals with the Middle East conflict, questions of origin and religion and is at the same time a family and love story. It premiered in Paris in 2017 under his direction. He had developed the production with Jewish and Arab members of his ensemble and had consulted with Natalie Zemon Davis, a historian of Jewish origin. The text is multilingual in English, German, Hebrew and Arabic. In 2018 it was shown...
That must be one of the most beautiful, funny love idiots that has ever been written into a play. Hundreds of times Eitan has been to the university library, hundreds of times he has seen a book lying there, "Kitab Wafayat al-A'yan", of which there is only one copy in this huge New York library, and he always wondered who read that. And then he sees her, Wahida, reading this book, and he tells her something about coincidences and non-coincidences,...
The debate continues on the distinction or not of a man and his artistic work. The director of the Théâtre de la Colline on Tuesday refused to deprogram Bertrand Cantat, convicted of the murder of his partner Marie Trintignant in 2003, to whom he asked to compose the music for his next show. In a statement, Wajdi Mouawad also refused to deprogram Jean-Pierre Baro, a director who had been targeted by a rape complaint filed without follow-up, and who is...
