Over the previous days it was a theatrical crisis “grandson” Produced by the National Theatre, it is the talk of the theatrical scene, after the actress Lucy went out on television with the media, Lamees Al-Hadidi, talking about transgressions in the show, and she also filed a complaint with the Minister of Culture against the show makers, and then she turned to the Administrative Prosecution, and the show makers also filed a complaint against her.
The artist, Abed Anani, one of the heroes of the theatrical performance, said in a statement to “The Seventh Day”: “I apologized for the performance on the last night, after the artist crossed Lucy on stage and described us as savages, and described the national theater as having become like the national circus, and that was not the first transgression, but we We have endured transgressions since the rehearsals of the show, as I work in the theater out of love for it and not for gain from it.”
Anani continued: “I have been an employee of the National Theater since 2003, and I am the only employee in the grandson show. Very much because of her, as she presented 45 show nights and had not preserved her role, so it was better for her to take care of her role as she cared about our details, and did not deviate from the text daily.
And he added: “The artist, Lucy, accuses us of being sorry, so how is that when the work was presented to a censorship committee, and there are two kings left and right, and they are the two executive directors who write every letter that occurs in the show, and it is all fixed with government paper, and it is proven that she hit the director on stage in front of the audience, and the director demanded to change it.”
For her part, the artist, Zainab Al-Abd, said: “I was presenting one scene in the show, but since the beginning of the show, she has been asking the theater director, the artist, Ihab Fahmy, to leave him, but he stuck to me, so that she objected to my presence in the play’s poster, and from here the problem began, and when she talked about us with the media. Lamees Al-Hadidi did not say a word against her, then she filed a complaint against us with the Minister of Culture and the Public Prosecution turned, and yesterday she said that she was the reason for stopping the theatrical performance.
And Zainab continued: “We remained silent until the Public Prosecution sent us to interrogate us, and it was a shock to us, and we also filed a complaint against her, but now we demand the return of the play again, as we were not happy with our success, and I hope the officials intervene to return it quickly.”
The executing director of the show, Karim Mahrous, said: “All I want now is to fulfill the promise of the artistic house of the theater to us that the show will return again after completing the investigations, and the one who is at fault is excluded even if it was me.” Regarding the problem, he said: “There are investigations in the Public Prosecution office, and within a week we will know its result.” After summoning the artist, Lucy, to the prosecution next Sunday.
The actress Lucy’s response to the problem came, as she told “The Seventh Day”: “What happened is a group of transgressions and a departure from the text, and accordingly the National Theater administration was notified of all the details of these transgressions and my objection to them, and I showed the play for 44 nights and tried to fix it, but it increased.” These abuses were suspended and the scenes of the play were deviated from the script.
And she continued: “I contacted the Minister of Culture and explained to her what happened, so she asked me to file an official complaint, and it was, and it was referred to the technical house of the theater, and I attended the legal advisor in the technical house of the theater and gave all the details, and after the investigations that took place in the technical house of the theater, the legal department carried out its investigations By referring the matter to the Administrative Prosecution to investigate these abuses, meaning that I did not submit a complaint to the Public Prosecution Office against anyone.
And she added: “There are some interventions by the previous workers in the show, but all of them have nothing to do with reality, and they are all lies and contrary to reality.
The show “The Grandson” on the novel by the great writer Abd al-Hamid Gouda Al-Sahar, starring, Abed Anani, Sherihan El Shazly, Youssef Al Mansour, Rana Khattab, Zainab Al Abd, Mahmoud Abdel Razek, Nashwa Ali Abdel Rahim, Nada Afifi, Abdel Bari Saad, with the participation of the able artist Adel Afar, and a large group of artists, decoration by Hamdi Attia, lighting by Hazem Ahmed, clothes by Marwa Odeh, movement expression Sherine Hegazy, music by Karim Arafa, prepared and directed by Youssef Al-Mansour.