Looking fo a Missing Employee

Looking for a Missing Employee

Like a detective's investigation, this performance explores the story of a Lebanese state employee who has disappeared. Using press clippings from local newspapers, Rabih Mroué narrates the unbelievable but true disappearance of the civil servant R.S., first accused of embezzlement of public money, then exonerated. From hypotheses to conclusions, from intuitions to speculations, we are plunged into a reality that uses its own fictions. Official speeches from members of the government and representatives of various political and religious groups, the interpretation of the facts by the media more or less linked to those in power, the opinion of family members: the more the inquest advances, the harder it seems to sort things out in this script full of uncertainties and unexpected twists, where reality turns out to be stranger than fiction.

text and direction: Rabih Mroué
direction assistance: Samar Makaaroun
scenography: Samar Makaaroun, Talal Chatila
video: Mohamed Soueid, Pamela Ghoneimeh
with: Rabih Mroué or Lina Saneh, and Hatem Imam

production: Ashkal Alwan