Ongoing Thought
With the director Rabih Mroué and the performers Lina Majdalanie and Yasser Mroué. Mediation Pollyanna Diniz (USP)
March 16th, from 10am to 12am | Venue: Itaú Cultural
Crossing Dialogues
With Reginaldo Nasser
March 15th after the performance | Venue: Sesc Vila Mariana
Synopsis
In his new theatrical work, So Little Time, Rabih Mroué explores the myths, self-portrayals and images of martyrs. What happens to a person who re-encounters their images as a larger-than-life myth? And what remains of them when their story is overwritten by political propaganda? This performance is an attempt to investigate the relationship between personal identity and public memorial in times of war and post-war. For So Little Time, he collaborates again with his long time partner Lina Majdalanie, with whom he developed their theatrical concepts and worked together with for numerous projects like 33 RPM And A Few Seconds (2012), Photo-Romance (2009) and Biokhraphia (2002)… among others.
History
The work of the Lebanese Rabih Mroué, actor, playwright and visual artist, born in Beirut in 1967, lies at the frontiers of theater, performance and video. He is known for his subtle deconstruction of images. In his work, they become narratives of contradictions. He reveals them to the audience layer by layer, creating moving reflections of our world that blur the lines between fiction and documentary, between imagination and manipulation. The conflicts in the Middle East of the last decades, especially in Lebanon, serve as material to the artist. In the film Je veux voir (2008) by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih has met with Catherine Deneuve in Beirut and drove through areas devastated by the conflict. Rabih Mroué currently resides in Berlin. He is co-founder of the Beirut Art Center; a contributing editor of TDR: The Drama Review (NYC); and theater director at Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich). He was a member of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” / Freie Universität in Berlin in the years of 2013 and 2014.
Credits
Written and directed by: Rabih Mroué
Performed by Lina Majdalanie
Collaborative writers: Yousef Bazzi and Lina Majdalanie
Set designer: Samar Maakaroun
Graphics and assistant Director: Abraham Zeitoun
Research assistant: Andrea Geissler
English version: Ziad Nawfal and Joumana Seikaly
German version: Karen Witthuhn, Surtitles: Yvonne Griesel
French version: Nada Ghosn
Portuguese version: Patrícia Lopes
Subtitles: Yvonne Griesel
Music: Kari’atal-funjan – Abdel Halim Hafez (composed by: Mouhamad Al Mouji, Lyrics: Nizar Qabbani)
Local producer: Ricardo Frayha
Local technical team: Julio Cesarini, Rodrigo Campos, Rodolfo Jaquetto, Mariana Mastrocola, Fernando Zimollo
Rabih Mroué’s production with Co-production of Théâtre de la Bastille, Festival d’automne, Wiesbaden Biennale and HAU Hebbel Am Ufer.
