Text and direction: Rabih Mroué / Lina Majdalanie / Set design, graphic and animation: Samar Maakaroun / Director of photography: Sarmad Louis / Technical production and programing: Sarmad Louis and Thomas Köppel / Translation: Ziad Nawfal / Casting and production: Petra Serhal / Editing: Najib Zeitouni and Sarmad Louis / With: Nagham Abboud, Samir Abou Jaoudé, Thomas Bowles, Edy Gemaa, Raseel Hadjian, Colette Hajj, Wadad Hneine, Paul Khodr, Ibtisam Kishly, Eliane Mallat, Muriel Moukawem, Elie Njeim, Antoine Ozon and Najeeb Zeytouni / Voices: Abdallah Al Machnouk, Gheith El Amine, Raphael Fleuriet, Charbel Haber, May Kassem, Nesrine Khodr, Victoria Lupton, Diran Mardirian, Rabih Mroué, Ziad Nawfal & Lina Majdalanie / Chant : Fatima Bazzi / Music: "Ya Jaret El Wadi" by Mohammed Abdel Wahab & "Le Dernier Repas" by Jacques Brel
Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué
33 RPM and a Few Seconds (2012)
Part of the retrospective "Outside the Image Inside Us"
- Performance
60min
Diyaa Yamout, a young Lebanese leftist activist, takes his own life and, in a farewell letter, declares that his reasons are personal and have nothing to do with politics. But his suicide mobilises a society desperately in search of meaning: institutions (official and unofficial, religious and secular, left-wing and right-wing) and individuals (young and old) find their own reasons. Does the young man’s death belong to the public or only to him and his relatives? Was he driven by the hope of an uprising? In their semi-documentary work, Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie astutely reconstruct the final moments of Yamout's life, at the same time passionately unmasking the problems of a country in which last year’s Arab revolutions have failed to strike a spark.
Co-production: Ashkal Alwan, the lebaneseassociation for plastic arts (Beirut), Festival d’Avignon, Festival delle Colline Torinesi (Turin), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Malta Festival (Poznan), Scène nationale de Petit-Quevilly – Mont-Saint-Aignan (Rouen), Stage-Helsinki Theatre Festival & Théâtre de l’Agora – Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne, Steirischer Herbst.
Co-produced by Ashkal Alwan, the lebanese association for plastic arts (Beirut), Festival d’Avignon, Festival delle Colline Torinesi (Turin), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Malta Festival (Poznan), Scène nationale de Petit-Quevilly - Mont-Saint-Aignan (Rouen), Stage-Helsinki Theatre Festival & Théâtre de l’Agora - Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne - steirischer herbst.
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Co-produced by Ashkal Alwan, the lebanese association for plastic arts (Beirut), Festival d’Avignon, Festival delle Colline Torinesi (Turin), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Malta Festival (Poznan), Scène nationale de Petit-Quevilly - Mont-Saint-Aignan (Rouen), Stage-Helsinki Theatre Festival & Théâtre de l’Agora - Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne - steirischer herbst.
Location
HAU3
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