Mute
Country: Kuwait
Production: Sabab theater
Text and Staging: Sulayman Al Bassam
Set Design: Éric Soyer
Music: Two or The Dragon of Abed Kobeissy and Ali Hout
production manager : Oussema Jemai
Language: Arabic with frensh subtitle
Duration: 60 minutes
Performance: Hala Omran, Abed Kobeissy, Ali Hout
Synopsis:
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?
