Mute (Kuwait-Lebanon-Syria) • Vabaduse festival
The seismic event of the Beirut port explosion in August 2020 forms the backdrop to Mute, a poetic-political text in which Al Bassam tests possible forms of resistance in the face of escalating violence and unprecedented media disinformation.
Mute is also a personal metaphor for the thinker and artist who chooses absolute silence, the total negation of speech, as his sovereign form of expression. Faced with the dissolution of the political concepts of left and right, and the geopolitical changes taking place in the Arab world, Al-Bassam poses the following question: how do we define artistic resistance today? What would happen were we to abandon traditional forms of narrative critique and posit silence as a tool of resistance?
The seismic event of the Beirut port explosion in August 2020 forms the backdrop to Mute, a poetic-political text in which Al Bassam tests possible forms of resistance in the face of escalating violence and unprecedented media disinformation.
Mute is also a personal metaphor for the thinker and artist who chooses absolute silence, the total negation of speech, as his sovereign form of expression. Faced with the dissolution of the political concepts of left and right, and the geopolitical changes taking place in the Arab world, Al-Bassam poses the following question: how do we define artistic resistance today? What would happen were we to abandon traditional forms of narrative critique and posit silence as a tool of resistance?
Author and Director: Sulayman Al Bassam
Scenographer and Lighting Designer: Eric Soyer
Music Composition: Two or The Dragon
Arabic Translation: Hala Omran
Stage writing: The artistic team
Sound Engineer: Sofiane Ayari
Company Manager and Subtitler: Wafa’a Al Fraheen
Stage Manager: Chaminda Kiralage
Admin Manager: Saif Al Areef
Production Manager: Oussama Jamei
Production Assistant: Mohammad Jawad
Cast: Hala Omran, Abed Kobeissy, Ali Hout
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