AUTHOR WAEL KADOUR
STAGE DIRECTION MOHAMAD AL RASHI AND WAEL KADOUR
CASTING MOHAMAD AL RASHI, RAMZI CHOUKAIR, HANANE EL DIRANI, AMAL OMRAN, MOUIAD ROUMIEH, TAMARA SAADE
SOUND DESIGN AND MUSIC VINCENT COMMARET AND CLÉMENT QUEYSANNE LIGHTING FRANCK BESSON
SCENOGRAPHY JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LANQUETIN
TRADUCTION ARABIC/FRENCH NABIL BOUTROS
PRODUCTION DIRECTION ESTELLE RENAVANT
PRODUCTION PERSEÏDEN
COPRODUCTIONS LA FILATURE – SCÈNE NATIONALE DE MULHOUSE, KUNSTFEST WEIMAR, FONDAZIONE CAMPANIA DEI FESTIVAL – NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL ITALIA, LE POC – ALFORTVILLE, TANDEM – SCÈNE NATIONALE ARRAS DOUAI, THÉÂTRE JEAN-VILAR DE VITRY-SUR-SEINE
SUPPORTS AFAC – THE ARAB FUND FOR ART AND CULTURE, CITIZEN ARTISTS – BEYROUTH, HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG, MIDDLE EAST OFFICE (BEIRUT), MAISON ANTOINE VITEZ, L’ONDA
À LA TRADUCTION ET AU SURTITRAGE SUNDANCE INSTITUT LA SPEDIDAM FONDS TRANSFABRIK – FONDS FRANCO-ALLEMAND POUR LE SPECTACLE VIVANT
RESIDENCES ATELIER DES ARTISTES EN EXIL, LA FILATURE – SCÈNE NATIONALE DE MULHOUSE, LE POC – ALFORTVILLE, TANDEM – SCÈNE NATIONALE ARRAS DOUAI, THÉÂTRE JEAN-VILAR DE VITRY SUR SEINE, SUNDANCE PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY – BERLIN.
The show is part of a programme in collaboration with ‘La Francia in Scena’ (France on Stage). La Francia in Scena is an artistic event promoted by the Institut Français Italia and was made possible by the French embassy in Italy, thanks to the support of the Institut Français and of the Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati.
With the financial support of the Goethe Institut in Napoli and of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin
national premiere
june 20 at 19.00
june 21 at 21.00
Napoli
Galleria Toledo
Chronicles of a city we thought we knew is based on a true story that occurred in Damasco during the beginning of the revolution: the suicide of a young woman on a summer night in 2011. The director and playright Wael Kadour — a graduate of the Superior Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damasco, today a refugee in Paris —, evokes certain aspects of Sirian society before and after the revolution, shedding a light on the intrinsic violence of the political, economical and religious system in his Country.
