It is said: “Writing theater is, in a way, knowing how to tell our story.” But the past ten years have undermined the axioms. Instead of asking how, we began to ask: Why do we talk, and about what? Thus, these four texts come today to answer these questions in their own way, and carry the concerns of their writers “here and now.”
A text depicting the city as he sees it: two elderly people guarding public toilets on a street in Damascus; Where stories seep out from under dirty bathroom doors, another about a young man who spends most of his time in the kitchen, unable to work and interact with others, and instead tries in vain to stop the water dripping from the tap so as not to drown him, and a third text about a faltering relationship between a Syrian young man residing inside... A Syrian woman residing in Germany. As the two try to maintain the connection that unites them in the face of the difficult circumstances of their lives, a final text sheds light on the mentality that prevails among Syrian artists in “Despora,” and affects their work mechanisms and their relationship with cultural institutions, by shedding light on the rehearsals of a theater group preparing for the play “The Return of Danton.” With projections on the Syrian situation.
Taken together, the texts of this workshop form an image that resembles its spaces with the questions of these spaces, or with the absence of questions, with the blurring or dominance of memory, with confusion, with boldness, with violence, and with death. Stage masters.
Kitkat theories: A book that includes some of my convictions in this life. I put these convictions in pictures and similes that may often be strange or funny, so that they are easy to understand and remember by simply reading the title. The general framework of each theory consists of five fixed components, which are: the text, the explanation. Proof, application, exception. The text includes limited lines that explain the general idea of the theory, while the explanation deals with more detailed paragraphs, while the proof provides a living example of its occurrence in our daily lives, and by reviewing the application part under the name “What should I do?” You will find easy and quick instructions that give you an immediate boost to benefit from what you have read. Finally, there is the exception, which contains the opposite context in which the application is of no benefit to its owner, brings harm to him, or repel an opportunity that might bring benefit. I wish you a pleasant reading.
