Ahmed El Attar present "Salma, Mon Amour"
Salma belongs to a rich Egyptian family. Her brother, Karim, is about to marry his American fiancée, a marriage that will officialise a commercial agreement between the two families’ companies. But, after 7 October, the situation in the region becomes unstable and the wedding has to be postponed, to the family’s dismay. With Salma, Mon Amour, Ahmed El Attar explores the world of those who feel untouched by history. A master at blending genres, the Egyptian playwright renders the chaos and uncertainty of this winded world, asking what life we can return to when our world has been burnt to ash. Who pays the price of violence and inhumanity? What happens after horror, destruction, and trauma?
아흐메드 엘 아타르는 2023년 10월 7일 사건 이후, 이집트의 한 부유한 가족이 점차 혼란 속으로 무너져 가는 과정을 무대 위에 펼쳐낸다.
Distribution
With With Ramsi Lehner, Leila Magdy, Nanda Mohammad, Kawthar Mohsen, Salah Morad, Mostafa Shaker
Text and direction Ahmed El Attar
Music Hassan Khan
Set design Hussein Baydoun
Light design Charlie Aström
Costumes Hussein Baydoun & Mohamed Sabakhawi
Assistant director Teymour El Attar & Lina Sakr
Technical director & production manager Ahmed Ashmawy
Stage manager Loulwa Dora
Light operator Saber El Sayed
Subtitles operator Lina Sakr
Choreography of El Mabdaa Tik Tok Kawthar Mohsen
Fight choreographer Luke Lehner
Costume assistantship Alia Hisham
Set construction Amr Saber
Costume making Atelier Hamada El Brawi, Said Rizk designs, Atelier Ahmed Moustafa
Administration, production, & distribution Jean Vinet
Poster photograph Hana Gamal
Performance photograph Mostafa Abdel Atty
Marketing manager Nour Tarek
Financial director Ahmed Nagy
Production team Dunia El Gabrouni, Abdo Ashraf, Alaa Sayed, Mahmoud Farag, Abdelrahman Magdy, Seif Tarek, Marwan Soultan, Hussien Mahmoud, Shehab Sayed, Abdallah Ahmed, Islam Anwar
Song excerpts Cupid by Fifty Fifty, El Mabda2 by Marwan Pablo, Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift.
Salma’s monologues are reworked excerpts from Hecuba, Heracles and Electra by Euripides as well as Antigone by Sophocles.
Production
Production Orient productions (Cairo)
Coproduction MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny), Mixt Nantes, Festival d’Avignon, Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain (Bayonne), Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels), The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Support Association Arab Arts Focus (AAAF), Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Falaki theater at the American University in Cairo, Onda - Office national de diffusion artistique
Residency Studio Emad Eddin (Cairo)
Acknowledgements Isabelle Fauvel, Hortense Archambault, Safa Beitawi, Menha El Batrawi, Hussein El Attar, Nevine El Ibiary, Yasmeen Fahim, Charlotte Fauvel, Sally Kandil, Ahmed El Sisi, Rim Dowidar, Eric le Bas, Heba El Sheikh, Maya Le Page, Dina Said, Wagih Fayez, Marawan Ibrahim, Sayed Abdel Baki, Karim Waleed, Montaha Salem, Manal Saad
Support for the 80th Festival d’Avignon Onda - Office national de diffusion artistique
Presented in partnership with France Médias Monde
