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Half Moon Theatre
Tuesday 1 & Wednesday 2 July,
Doors 8:10pm, Performance 8:30pm
Tickets €15/€12

A lecture performance by Rabih Mroué

In this multi-media lecture performance actor/director Rabih Mroué reconstructs the landscape of his homeland Lebanon, destroyed by so many wars and crises, with the aid of dozens of anonymous personal documents, videos, photographs, newspaper clippings and eyewitness reports that he has collected over the years.

“I have been collecting worthless material for almost ten years now, taking good care of it, arranging it, documenting it, indexing it, and preserving it from any possible damage. Today I possess what resembles an archive which I cannot liberate myself from. I hope that by making it public I can get rid of its weight. This is my attempt to destroy a memory that doesn’t know how to erase itself.”

After the tremendous audience response to Bath of Baghdad, presented by the Experimental Theatre of Syria at the 2007 Cork Midsummer Festival (Irish Times Top Ten Theatre Events of 2007), we have been keen to present more theatre from the Middle East. Rabih Mroué is one of the most interesting voices in contemporary Lebanese theatre and his intriguing performances are attempts to understand Lebanon’s turbulent past and present.

Presented in association with Project Arts Centre.

Festival Director. “Why I chose this?” Theatre from the Middle East has been all too absent from our cultural landscape. Rabih Mroué represents a new and exciting aesthetic in contemporary international theatre. A must for any serious theatre-goer.