BALTOSCANDAL presents:
RABIH MROUÉ /LIB/
´Make me stop smoking´



In his lecture-performance, Rabih Mroué reconstructs the radical heterogeneous landscape of Lebanon, destroyed by crises and wars, with the aid of countless anonymous and personal documents, videos, photos, newspaper clipping and eyewitness reposts, that he pieces together to create a complex system of meandering narrations. In so doing, he questions the veracity and cogency of the archive documents as much as he negotiates the validity of the reconstruction “reality”. What happens when a lost landscape is re-appropriated through its archived representation?

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, and playwright whose multimedia work diverts traditional modes of theatre into new relationships between performer and audience. In 1990 he began putting on his own plays, performances, and videos, winning international recognition. Rabih Mroué works in Beirut at Future TV as a writer and director of short animation films and documentaries. His theatre productions have been presented at many international festivals across Europe.

idea / performance: Rabih Mroué
duration: 60´
ticket: 70/120

NB! 10th International Theatre Festival BALTOSCANDAL will take place 2-5 July 2007 in Rakvere!