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TOURING
LONDON Shubbak Festival, April/June 2025
TUNIS Journées Théâtrales de Carthage, Nov 2025
CAIRO D-CAF Festival, Nov 2025
BEIRUT KED, June/July 2024
BEIRUT Madina Theatre, March 2024
TRIPOLI Rachid Karame International Fair, June 2023
BERLIN, Akademie der Künste, November 2022
TRANSIT TRIPOLI
play directed by Caroline Hatem
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Author: Anna Seghers
Directing, adaptation : Caroline Hatem
Translation: Caroline Hatem, Josef Akiki, Bassel Shalgheen
Dramaturg: Bassel Shalgheen
Actor: Josef Akiki
Live Music, sound design: Rabih Gebeile
Scenography (in Berlin) : Velica Panduru
Set & propos : Alexandre Habre
Costume design & wings: Nour Domloje
Video : Walid Abdelnour
Light design: Erich Schneider
Additional drawings: Luca Nihawi, Rabih Gebeile
Poster: karim Farah
Production: YAZAN
Co-producer: Akademie der Künste
Rights: Kiepenheuer Medien
With the support of the Goethe-Institut International Co-Production Fund, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, the Lab for Global Performance and Politics, KED Beirut, Correspondaences, Hunna Arts and Culture Center.
In partnership with the Art & Movement Dance School and the Schaubühne Theatre.
Transit Tripoli was hosted in residency at the Schaubühne in Berlin.
It opened at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in November 2022.
Language: Arabic dialects
Duration: 75 minutes
“Sur un chemin perdu, vers un pays perdu. Mutterseelenallein.”
Lebanese theatre director Caroline Hatem has adapted Anna Seghers’ TRANSIT to the present Syrian context of displacement and emigration. Mirroring the situation in France in 1940, the play is set in Lebanon, where Syrians are impatiently waiting for visas or for occasions to flee, and where the narrator becomes a Syrian emigrant we follow in Tripoli’s streets and cafés.
With one actor on stage, live music and an extensive use of digital scenography to summon the city by the sea, TRANSIT TRIPOLI pays tribute to Seghers’ unique and lively voice, and its appeal to one’s inner space and freedom, ballads and gaze, while subjected to the implacability of History.