Devised and performed by: Lamia Abi Azar, Junaid Sarieddine and Maya Zbib
Light Design: Nadime Deaibes
Digital Arts: Maya Chami
Produced by: Zoukak Theater Company
Co-produced by: Zoukak Theater Company in collaboration with the British Council and Al-Madina Theater

Shakespeare's savage political commentaries on the government made of him a major political thinker. He asked his audience to consider questions that criticize leadership: What does it mean to be a king? What constitutes a good ruler? When should a ruler be obeyed or disobeyed? Can rebellion be justified? How is political power acquired and maintained? In most parts of the Arab world individual power has been the norm of leadership, dictators and specific political figures have been ruling over people's lives for decades. In Lebanon we have a culture that is obsessed with certain leaders and male figures that have been in government for years. After the revolutions and the regimes that resulted from them and the wars that followed and continue, and within the governmental vacancy in Lebanon, the power is shifting towards multiple and unexpected coalitions, however figures of patriarchy are still moving and shaking the region, that seems to be holding on to images of ruthless power. We are interested in asking Shakespeare's questions in our context today, in order to analyze and represent the archetypes of patriarchy that are dominating the region.
Three actors on stage will direct each other in a thirty-minute game of theatre, using instructions, multiple role-playing, and gruesome stage directions from Shakespeare's plays, to reflect on recurrent forms of merciless power and deadly ambition for domination and where monstrous governance can lead the people.