Nom el Ghezlan shakes the audience
The Spring Major Theatre Production tells the real stories of Syrian men and women who face oppression and death through imprisonment, sequestration or exile and who, in a way or another, make the choice of life.
In theater director and LAU Associate Professor Lina Abyad’s latest production, the smells of Zaatar, Jasmin and Aleppo soap mix with the taste of blood and salty tears to tell the real stories of those Syrian refugees forced to leave their beloved country in search for a life, at any price. Germany, is the promised land of the exiles who swim or sail away from the oppression and the aborted revolution they had so strongly wished for and believed in. The courage of Walid, Carla, Ahmad and Dima, their hopes, echo those of previously jailed poet Faraj Bayrakdar and writer Yassin Hajj Saleh whose wife, long-time activist Samira el-Khalil, was kidnapped in December 2013.
Poignant, raw, “Naoum el Ghezlan” is a human experience in its own right. To the sound of an Ave Maria and verses from the Quran, the play aims to break people’s lack of empathy toward the suffering of individuals who face and defy the worst of men while keeping faith in humanity.
In five tableaux full of symbols Abyad and her actors transmit their attachment to a cause that has become so universal and that no one should remain insensitive to.
Join the cause and watch “Nom el Ghezlan” at LAU Beirut-IRWIN auditorium every day until April 10 at 8:30 p.m. Click here for more information about the play.
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