From Dammam to the International…a play "Talk so I can see you" At the World Theater Festival in Germany
Culture and Arts Association in Dammam, yesterday, Tuesday, theatrical performance "Speak so I can see you" Produced by: Proscenium Theater Troupe, written and directed by: Dr. Youssef Ahmed Al-Harbi, and acting: Mohammed Al-Mutawa, Sawsan Al-Idris, Jawad Al-Sayegh, Mahdi Al-Marhoon, Mohammed Al-Marzouq, and Hawraa Al-Hazeem, and music and sound effects: Abdulaziz Al-Aswad, before his departure to Germany, where the show was chosen to participate in the World Theater Festival in Chemnich in Germany, next week, among an elite group of international shows, to be the only work representing the Gulf states and the Arab world, and representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in this forum. International.
It is noteworthy that the play participated in the Ithra Festival, and won three awards: Best Integrated Show, Best Script Adaptation, and Best Actress in a Leading Role. It also participated in the Riyadh Theater Festival, and won the award for Best Actor in a Second Role.
The show’s participation in the Arab and international markets continues, as it will participate in the Zarqa Summer Theater Festival during the month of September, and in the Different Spaces Festival in the Arab Republic of Egypt during the month of November, in addition to other future participations that reflect the growing presence of the work in the theatrical arena.
The story of the play
In a mysterious space that resembles a train track or a desolate forest, a number of blind people live in a state of loss, without Aware of their location, relying on guesses and sounds to understand the world around them. A person named… appears to them "Blind train"He presents himself as a guide towards salvation, so they follow him, motivated by hope.
However, their journey ends in a tragic fate, when they discover that what they thought was a guide was nothing but the cause of their destruction. In a harsh moment of revelation, the truth becomes clear: they were searching for a savior… but they did not find anyone.
An experience that goes beyond reality
The play “Speak Until I See You” belongs to the borders of overlap between symbolic theater and absurd theatre, as it is based on a semantic structure that uses symbols to reveal inner and existential worlds, and borrows from absurdity its structure based on disintegration, repetition of dialogues, and a sense of futility.
Thus, it can be described as a work of a symbolic nature with an absurd foundation, in which existential questions intersect with semantic ambiguity, in a theatrical experience that goes beyond direct reality towards deeper reflections on the meaning of presence and absence, sight and insight.
As for the level of directing treatment, the show relies on an abstract visual approach, based on intensifying the theatrical image and economizing on realistic elements, through the use of lighting, sound, and body movement, in a way that enhances the symbolic dimension and perpetuates the sense of the absurd. By time and place.
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