2023-07-10 10:58:15
Fouad Yammine and Cynthia Karam are taking part in the theatrical show “Ghomm Ein Wa Fateh Ein”, written and directed by Karim Shebli and Sarah Abdo, which is shown at the Monot Theater (Ashrafieh-Beirut) until July 23.Laughing and painful, the play “Blinking an Eye Opens an Eye” with the duo Yamin and Karam and their captivating performance, as they present the story of a couple in their different stages of life, with all the human transformations that these stages witness and all the life, political and economic experiences that revolve around them. The work began as the nucleus of a short theatrical idea that does not exceed a quarter of an hour, written and directed by Karim Shebli and Sarah Abdo as part of an idea launched by the “Shams Association” in the wake of the Corona pandemic, and its focus is “four square meters for speaking.” This theme included three short theatrical performances, out of 26, that were chosen to play in a specific space of only four square meters, poor décor, and specific sound and musical tools and effects. The three performances were presented, “We and Waiting for Noah” (written by Karim Shibli and Sarah Abdo), “As If We Are Living” (Writing: George Abboud), and “I” (Writing: Nour Saad).
From “We and Waiting for Noah” and some of her narratives on the eve of the August 4 explosion, writers Karim Shibli and Sarah Abdo set out to present the story of the two lovers, “Aida and Ibrahim,” rich in its dialogues, rhythm, and the coherence of its dramatic structure, in four moving meters and a door frame that opens to a theatrical space and the history of the life of a married couple, indeed history. Generations of married couples lived through broken dreams, war, death, loss, and the estrangement of children. The couple are stuck in their square metres, often in a bathroom reminiscent of the writer’s absurd climates. Eugene Ionesco In “double slander”, with liberation and linguistic escapism and crude writings that raise the cost between two lovers in their youth and their old age, and their insults that flow among the audience laughter, giggles and flirtation, and concern for the remaining life and ten and all that revolves around them of invisible personalities with whom they communicate through the window or the phone or radio.
Ibrahim takes advantage of the absence of his wife, Aida, to smoke a cigarette without her knowledge. She comes back and catches him with a flagrante delict, so that we enter into the whirlpool of the details of her daily life and the small problems and conflicts, laughing and sad, which do not hide the love of the spouses for each other, and their eagerness for the survival of each of them and for steadfastness in a country like Lebanon, and the difficult and frightening memories they went through in the repeated wars to mix. This sadness with laughter and ridicule of everything that happened and is happening around us.
A bit of realism, things and things from a moving scenic fantasy on the rails of smart, simple, and transforming scenography throughout the show in times of peace, war, love, youth, and difficult old age that we live today in the midst of our economic crises. The scenography bars rotate on moving wheels, so that we can see the life of the duo from different angles. It revolves around itself and regarding their life, which passed and passes in the blink of an eye. Nothing happens in it, or everything happens in it, including the deadly routine, or that confusion that the play worked on, and its absurd game was employed in a beautiful tale that is carefully led by the elaborate performance signed by Cynthia. Karam and Fouad Yammine.
Dramatizing the details
Fouad Yammine respects, with obvious concern, any work he undertakes, whether in writing, acting, or even in television presentation. He breaks away from work to give his best. In Blinking an Eye, Yameen captures a text rich in detail and the daily routine of an elderly woman, with all her rebellious behavior, laughing and sarcastic regarding social ideals.
In turn, Cynthia Karam plays her role on the ruler. She knows the music with which she began her artistic life when she presented herself as a singer in an amateur program, an actress in a daily theater with George Khabbaz, and an experimenter for many performers on social networks. Two important experiences that deviate from the usual traditional form of representation of the elderly, their gait, and their speech stations, to open the two characters to the richness of my scenes and the details of the drama of daily routine life, which is repeated and repeated every day, in the same movement, comment, emotion, anger, tenderness, and everything that the two characters show before the audience in terms of signals, transformations, and the opening of communication paths … until the viewer becomes inside the cage of their married life and their circle, narrow in terms of space, and loose with moving feelings, with the speed and grace of the short sentences of the beautiful text. The duo, Yammine and Karam, present one of the beautiful moments on stage that was created for their concern and respect for the recipient.
The play “The Closing of an Eye, Opening an Eye” is a poem regarding our lost lives between war and peace, emotional relationships, fear of disease, death, and the loss of loved ones. A play of mockery of everything that surrounds us, and in confronting it, we have nothing but wishes to live – simply – a life that is four meters in size, “Ibrahim and Aida”, with its sadness, joy and warmth of humanity.
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