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- Pierre Boulez Saal
THE QUEEN COMMANDED HIM TO FORGET III
OFIRA HENIG
Director Ofira Henig—most recently seen in Berlin with her productions The Bees’ Road and KIND OF at the Schaubühne’s Internationale Neue Dramatik Festival—and actor-dramaturg Khalifa Natour have developed a new piece for the Pierre Boulez Saal that blurs the boundaries between theater, music, and poetry as well as between different cultures. The Queen Commanded Him to Forget is based on a novel by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury and also draws inspiration from Brecht’s Mother Courage, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, and the tale of Hansel and Gretel. At the center of the story is the character of Um Hassan, who will do anything to protect her children in times of war. The piece explores the role of literature as a preserver of memory and as part of a process that eternalizes forgetting.
In Arabic with German and English surtitles
Supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Cast
- Adaptation, Editing and Director
- Ofira Henig
- Music
- Kinan Azmeh
- Dramaturgy and Translation
- Khalifa Natour
- Visual Concept
- Ashraf Hanna
- Costume Design
- Annie Atedgy-Yellin
- Poetry
- Ramy Al-Asheq
- Lighting Design
- Miriam Damm
- The Writer
- Saleh Bakri
- Um Hassan
- Khalifa Natour
- The Son
- Carlos Gharzuzi
- The Daughter
- Maya Omaia Keesh
- The Soldier
- Anan Abu Jabir
- The Child Soldier
- Basheer Asli
Concert program
- The Queen Commanded Him to Forget, on fragments from "My Name Is Adam" by Elias Khoury and inspired by Brecht's "Mother Courage"
