“One thing I love about theatre is its capacity to represent the brevity of life. We see whole lives go by, follow their rise, fall, and disappearance. Here is the story of a family at turns aggrieved, joyful during a wedding, and once again, aggrieved. Life goes by. Here we see love, heartbreak, and the hope of a better life.”
Al Sowan is an Egyptian play written and directed by French theatre-maker Pascal Rambert and translated by actress, director, and drama critic Menha El Batrawy. This is Rambert’s first Egyptian play, written especially for the local audience at D-CAF – where it is set to make its World Premiere.
Pascal Rambert is a French writer, choreographer and director for the stage and screen. His writings have been translated, published and staged in more than 20 languages around the world. In 2012, his world-famous play, Clôture de l’amour (Love’s End) – staged over 180 times in 23 different languages – reaped the prize for best new French-language play from the Syndicat de la Critique. Another of Rambert’s most widely acclaimed works is Répétition (Rehearsal, 2014), which earned him the annual prize for literature and philosophy at the Académie Française. In 2016, he received the Theatre Prize from the Académie Française for his entire body of work.
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