Kawalis Zoukak - The Generation Z Mentorship Program 

During the last 6 months, Omar Ariss has been developing his play, "It's Just Art", as part of the GenZ Mentorship Program and is now ready to present it to the public. The program continues with Dima Attar, Hussein Al Hasan and Omar Bakeer who will present their work in December. Stay tuned!

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Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 8 PM

It's Just Art by Omar Ariss 

Mentors: Junaid Sarieddeen and Omar Abi Azar

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Language: Arabic

Synopsis: 

Two characters, a man and a woman, come to a theatre to watch a performance that turns out to be different than what they expected. They start discussing whether the feelings of the two actors on stage are real or fake. Every answer seems to keep leading to another question. Can these two differentiate between reality and illusion in a world where everything is possible?

Credits:

Translated and directed by: Omar Ariss

Perforormed by:

Jad Harb
Lynn Bawab
Cécile El Kallab
Antoine El Khoury 

Music and Piano: Anthony Youssef 

Light designer: Rahaf Jammal 

Costume designer: Anna Yaghi 

Choreography: Cécile El Kallab 

Stage manager: Leila El Zein 

Light operation: Jennifer Yammine

Omar Ariss is a multidisciplinary theatre practitioner pursuing a degree in both Performing Arts and Psychology at the Lebanese American University. With interest in acting and directing, Omar is exploring different aspects of the performing arts both onstage and offstage, and is set on taking different mediums of theater such as dance, movement, music.