I Hate Theatre I Love Pornography
A performance by Zoukak Theatre Company
10-11-12 December, 8:00pm (time might change)
at Al Madina Theatre

Language: English 
Duration: 50 minutes

Regular tickets: 30,000 LL

Support tickets: 60,000 LL / 100,000 LL / 150,000 LL 

Tickets available through Ihjoz and at the door. You can also buy the tickets at any Liban Post and Malik's Bookshop branch.

We are happy to finally be able to premiere this play in Beirut after a year of delays, so come and join us for the ride!

“I Hate Theater I  Love Pornography” is an investigation on current forms of corruption plaguing today’s world. It uses theatricality as a tool to question how we position ourselves as artists and as individuals with regards to the multiple representations of this corruption. While the majority of citizens of countries in the northern hemisphere are becoming more and more afraid of cultural difference, electing extreme right-wing leaders and voting for exclusionist policies, for the prospect of being safe from “The Other”, and while most of the South is being torn by wars, destroying infrastructures and wiping out whole cultures, with real-estate businessmen waiting like scavengers for the right moment to sell and re-build, and as the death of children is being bartered for profit, we ask ourselves how can we as theatre makers position ourselves in the middle of this obscenity of this political opportunism. 

Today these same power-thirsty policy makers, war-lords and businessmen, are setting the new paradigms of the world’s system of values… exclusion, marginalization, segregation, displacement, murder… specifying the worth of human bodies, through commodities, wars, and the media. As people are massacred and decapitated daily on the news, and as heroes in Hollywood zombie movies are systematically obliterating masses of the undead; we will attempt to shed the light on this corruption through the value we assign to our bodies, creating a parallelism between the performative body, the pornographic body and the corpse.

The Team
Conceived and produced by Zoukak Theatre Company
Directed by: Omar Abi Azar
Devised and Performed by: Lamia Abi Azar, Hashem Adnan, Ziad Chakaroun, Khodor Ellaik, Junaid Sarieddeen and Maya Zbib
Assistant Director: Rahaf Jammal, Natalie Maalouf
Light Designer and Technical Director: Nadim Deaibes
Communication: Marianne Kortbani
Graphic Design: Maya Chami
Production manager: Mohamad Hamdan
Co-produced by: IBSEN Awards
Supported by: Sundance Institute and Drosos Foundation

The first phase of this project was created in collaboration with Abdullah Al Kafri, Ahmad Ghossein, Nathalie Harb and Helle Siljeholm, at the Ibsen Theatre in Skien, Norway, in 2014.

This Project has been developed partly at IBSEN Theatre in Norway in 2014 and at Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab in Utah in 2017