Falaki Theater

Ahmed El Attar's fascination with the family, evident with his trilogy consisting of Life is Beautiful or Waiting for My Uncle from America (2000), The Last Supper (2014), and Mama (2018), continues with The Discreet Charm of the Pillars of Society. This time around, two families instead of one, who epitomise wealth, power, and corruption take centre stage. One from Syria and the other from Sweden, what brings them together is their disapproval of their children's upcoming marriage.

Directed by Omar Ghayatt, The Lucky Children is an homage to vanished memories. In a dream-like journey, the past and present of three people interest and seem to happen simultaneously – moments of becoming and passing dissolve into one another. Who are we without memories? How do they shape our view of the world and our relationships with each other? This visually powerful theatre performance with atmospheric sound is an invitation into a sensual world; into other realities, lives, and into a being that seems simultaneously distant and yet, so close and familiar…