Rabih Mroué

Riding on a Cloud (2013)

Part of the retrospective "Outside the Image Inside Us"

  • Theatre
65 Min

This piece by the theatre director Rabih Mroué is an impressive combination of the personal and political: For “Riding on a cloud” he invites his brother Yasser to take the role of a character that resembles him personally. A person who was injured in the Lebanese Civil War and lost his ability to use words, Yasser began to shoot videos, which fuse with his recounted memories on stage to form a subjective picture of the political developments in Lebanon. The artist and director Rabih Mroué lives in Beirut and Berlin. In “Riding on a cloud” he describes the fragile construction of biography, which emerges between political reality, memories, facts and fiction. For Mroué this is always the starting point for artistic self-reflection, which he then transposes for the theatre and exhibitions.    

Support: Fonds Podiumskunsten (Den Haag), Prins Claus Fonds (Amsterdam), Hivos&Stichting DOEN (Den Haag).

Cast

Text, Direction: Rabih Mroué / In cooperation with: Sarmad Louis / With: Yasser Mroué / Translation: Ziad Nawfal

Dates

Past
  • Thu 15.1.2015, 20:00 / HAU1
  • Fri 16.1.2015, 20:00 / HAU1
  • Sat 17.1.2015, 19:30 / HAU1
  • Sun 18.1.2015, 17:00 / HAU1
  • Fri 1.4.2016, 20:30 / HAU1
  • Sun 3.4.2016, 19:00 / HAU1

Location

HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin

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