A lyrical comedy play, which premiered in Beirut yesterday evening, introduces Ramadan traditions in a number of Arab countries, and recalls with much nostalgia the joy that marked the month of fasting in the Lebanese capital, which is mired in a severe economic and living crisis. With some cold licorice drink, drums and tambourines “Welcome” and poems and songs of joy, welcome everyone who enters the “Madina Theater” to attend the play entitled “If Ramadan goes back in time.”
Awad Awad, a Palestinian theater director residing in Lebanon, describes his work as a “Ramadan nostalgia.”
He says, “We present an entertaining job that pushes the audience to remember beautiful things.”
In the theater, whose entrance walls are decorated with carpets, cords of colored fabric clippings are hung on it, and platforms selling sweets, beans, cakes, gowns and handicrafts are hung on it, Awad stresses that “Ramadan is beautiful with the gathering of family and friends.” itself”.
The 28-year-old adds: “We meet on stage with the audience. Like a small iftar or a big suhoor, to sing with him and make him happy,” in light of a stifling economic crisis.
The play recalls the Ramadan rituals of the past and the songs associated with them through the experience of Abu Sobhi (Sami Hamdan) and Abu Rima (Tariq Tamim), two magicians who retired from the profession of waking up fasting people by beating the drum before the time of constipation.
