Le soldat inconnu
a tragedy in three acts
A new English translation of
LE TOMBEAU SOUS L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE
by Paul Raynal
MESH presents this neglected masterpiece at the Finborough Theatre in London to mark the centenary of the journeys of the unknown soldiers of England and France from their unmarked graves on the Western Front to Westminster Abbey and the Arc de Triomphe on 11th of November 1920.
This lively new English adaptation is a translation from the French original Le Tombeau sous l'Arc de Triomphe by Paul Raynal (1885-1971), first produced in Paris in 1924. It is a powerful, lyrical drama about wartime sexual politics in which a soldier on leave from the front experiences an emotional tumult which turns the worlds of his fiancée and father upside down.
www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/whats-on
Dates and cast will be announced here soon.
This lively new English adaptation is a translation from the French original Le Tombeau sous l'Arc de Triomphe by Paul Raynal (1885-1971), first produced in Paris in 1924. It is a powerful, lyrical drama about wartime sexual politics in which a soldier on leave from the front experiences an emotional tumult which turns the worlds of his fiancée and father upside down.
www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/whats-on
Dates and cast will be announced here soon.
SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME
by Frank McGuinness
Zoukak Theatre, Beirut
Novemember 2020
An American doctor, an Irish journalist and an English academic find themselves thrown together in a cell in war-torn 1980s Lebanon with no idea when - or if - they will ever be released. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, how do they endure? How do they survive in the face of interminable monotony, profound mutual irritation and abject terror?
In its bold new production MESH Theatre Co explores the daily crisis experienced by hostages whose strength comes from a compelling mix of humour, invention, acerbic wit, tolerance - and love.
November 2020
www.zoukak.org/sidewalks
Cast to be announced here soon.
In its bold new production MESH Theatre Co explores the daily crisis experienced by hostages whose strength comes from a compelling mix of humour, invention, acerbic wit, tolerance - and love.
November 2020
www.zoukak.org/sidewalks
Cast to be announced here soon.
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MESH Theatre Co brings Frank McGuinness's play to the Zoukak Theatre, Beirut, as part of the Sidewalks Festival of International Drama in November 2020.
Zoukak Sidewalks is a point of encounter providing a shared space between international artists, local practitioners, students and interested audiences. MESH will run educational workshops alongside the production around the neglected question of arbitrary detention as a human rights abuse. |