Omar Abu Saada | Syria


A many-voiced monologue at a laptop
A woman with a computer. She is reading articles written by the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif, published in the British newspaper The Guardian. Soueif wrote, "Look at the streets ... this is what hope looks like", on the day Mubarak announced his resignation. She wrote about the spirit of the protests, about the joy and optimism in the population and how it can be harnessed and what the change could look like. The woman with a computer is Syrian. She interrupts her lecture time and again. She reads the posts from her friends on Facebook that sway between irony, cynicism and despair. She posts entries herself, but always deletes them. "What’s on your mind?" when the rebellion around you is drowned in blood? In their performance, together with the performer Nanda Mohamad, director Omar Abu Saada and author Mohammad Al Attar have created a theatrical collage composed of small fragments of thoughts and text puzzles as an inventory taking of the political frame of mind of her country.

With Nanda Mohamad Director Omar Abu Saada Text and Dramaturgy Mohammad Al Attar
Sponsored by the Goethe Institute