Appendice
“There is only one thing that I would never cut out, although it is feasible medically speaking: my tongue. But I don’t want. Because without my tongue I can no longer do theatre, I lose my citizenship as well as my war against the enemy.”
Excerpt from Appendice, a performance by Lina Saneh
Lina Saneh Body pArts Studio and Gallery projects are part of Lina Saneh's new performance Appendice, produced by the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan and le Festival d'Automne à Paris, 36e édition.
Performance duo-in monologue- explores limits of law and partnership
Beirut: In the intimate confines of the cul-de-sac at the far end of Galerie Sfeir-Semler, the audience enters to find actress and playwright Lina Saneh sitting on a chair facing a lectern. She sits, motionless, hands on her lap, her eyes averted from both lectern and audience.
Actor Rabih Mroué enters with a stack of papers and stands behind the lectern with the manner of a man about to deliver a lecture or eulogy. “I have a problem,” he declares. “A big problem”.
So begins Saneh’s new play “Appendice” […]
Mroué is speaking on behalf of his wife – a relationship that reproduces the power dynamics and legal status of women in many religions.
It also turns this dynamic on its head. This being Saneh’s play the audience is aware that it’s the wife who’s mostly responsible for the words the husband speaks. At several points in the performance, Mroué’s character seems to depart from his wife’s script to speak for himself, underlining the mundane marital symptoms of the existential issues Saneh wants to discuss.
Jim Quilty - The Daily Star – Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Appendice
Written and directed by Lina Saneh
Performed by Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh
First Assistant: Hatem Imam
Second Assistant: Samar Maakaroun
Website: Ali Cherri
Appendice was first shown in Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Beirut-Lebanon on April 21 and 22, 2007, and was shown next on September 18 and 19, 2007 at the Schouwburg Theater in Rotterdam, in the framework of De Internationale Keuze, and on October 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 at La Cité Internationale in Paris, in the framework of the Festival d'Automne, 36e édition.
For more information about Lina Saneh's performance Appendice:
lina.appendice@gmail.com
Beirut - April 21, 2007.
Images copyright © Houssam Mcheimech
For more information about Lina Saneh's performance Appendice:
lina.appendice@gmail.com
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