Presented in the Roy Bowen Theatre The Drake Performance and Event Center at 1849 Cannon Drive, Columbus, OH Map, Directions, & Parking: <http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/4_facilities/level_3_facilities/theatre_locations.htm>
April 15 at 3:30 PM April 17 at 8 PM
Identity is conceived by Iraqi puppeteer, Louay Assaf, and performed by Assaf and OSU theatre students. Using traditional Arab shadow puppets and European rod puppets, the piece depicts an Arab intellectual's search for a new identity that negotiates Arab history and a constantly changing world.
<http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/2_productions/level_3_productions/productions/2003_04/identity.htm>
--- April 15, 2004 --- * The Atlas Group/Walid Ra'ad presents
_The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive_
Presented in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH
April 15 at 7 PM
The Atlas Group <http://www.theatlasgroup.org/> is an imaginary, non-profit research foundation, founded by Walid Ra'ad <http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?RAADW> in 1999 in Beirut to explore the contemporary history of Lebanon and some of the unexamined dimensions of the Lebanese wars (1975-1991). The Atlas Group has produced visual and audiovisual documents that while fictionalized are often based on real experiences. Through the guise of The Atlas Group archive, Ra'ad reconsiders the recent internal conflicts in Lebanon in a multi-media lecture presentation of the fictional foundation's archival material.
<http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/2_productions/level_3_productions/productions/2003_04/muttering.htm>
--- April 16, 2004 --- * Interventionist Theatre Symposium: Featuring a Screening of _The Last Enemy_ (Dir. Nitzan Gilady, 1999)
Presented in the Wexner Center Film and Video Theatre 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH
April 16, 1:30 - 6:00 PM Free Event
The symposium features three interventionist theatre practitioners who have done extensive work in occupied Palestine. Interventionist theatre, an emerging field within theatre studies, lets people living in conflict areas develop new collaborative work generated from their personal experience and workshops with theatre specialists. The symposium will begin with the screening of a documentary on The Last Enemy, an Israeli/Palestinian collaboration with a cast of three Israeli actors, three Palestinian actors, two Jordanian actors, and one Arab-Israeli actor, and incorporating Arabic, Hebrew, and English. The screening will be followed by a round table discussion with Dr. Jim Mirrione of the Creative Arts Team at New York University. Mirrione is a specialist on interventionist theatre and directed The Last Enemy. Also featured will be Louay Assaf and Sami Mitwassi, a Palestinian actor who has worked extensively with the Palestinian theatres ASHTAR <http://www.ashtar-theatre.org/> and INAD <http://www.inadtheater.org/>.
--- May 12, May 13-15, 19-22, 26-28, May 22, 2004 --- * _Fate of a Cockraoch_ by Tewfik al Hakim <http://people.africadatabase.org/people/data/person13158.html>
Presented in the Roy Bowen Theatre The Drake Performance and Event Center at 1849 Cannon Drive, Columbus, OH Map, Directions, & Parking: <http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/4_facilities/level_3_facilities/theatre_locations.htm>
Directed by Naila Al-Atrash
May 12 at 7:30 PM May 13-15, 19-22, 26-28 at 8 PM May 22 at 2 PM
The Fate of a Cockroach combines riotously comic and dark political allegory with marital farce. The play begins with a self-proclaimed king of the cockroaches expounding on the greatness of cockroach achievements to indifferent compatriots while ants carry off individual cockroaches for their meals. The debate over cockroach individualism versus the collective action of ants continues until the king accidentally falls into a giant tub. Meanwhile, an Egyptian engineer obsessively watches a cockroach's vain attempts to climb out of the bathtub . . . and the engineer's wife grows increasingly concerned for his sanity. In the juxtaposition of fantastic and realistic settings, Hakim creates a searing indictment that extends from Egyptian leaders to the general populace. This production will be guest directed by Naila Al-Atrash, one of the foremost women directors in the Arab world.
<http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/2_productions/level_3_productions/productions/2003_04/fate.htm>
For more information on these events, please call 614-292-5821 or visit <http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/>.