FLED sheds light on two aspiring actors as they unconsciously inherit their characters' anxieties while rehearsing Ionesco's "Hunger and Thirst". 

SYNOPSIS
Fled is a hybrid commemorative monodrama based on “flee”, a theatrical performance and screening of a play within a play, which sheds the light on two aspiring actors rehearsing and co-directing Ionesco’s “Hunger and Thirst”.

While rehearsing, the two find themselves unconsciously inheriting their characters’ anxieties which transfuse into their own thoughts making them realize their irreconcilable differences and disrupting their project.

In 2018, Ionesco’s “Hunger and Thirst” accidentally brought Karim and Katy together. They planned to stage the play and had chosen it at a time when buried anxieties were resurfacing within many people, because of the political, economic, and social context, along with the two-sided dilemma: accepting the present or fleeing the crumbling reality to somewhere else that might or might not feed our desires for a better living.

After translating and rehearsing the text, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted Katy and Karim’s initial plan. With all that has happened in the past years, the two artists decided to reinitiate their project and integrate into their adaptation the rehearsal process, their personal fears, and their struggles as young artists residing in Lebanon.

PARTNER
NEIGHBOURHOOD

Neighbourhood is an organization founded in 2022 with the objective of reaffirming the role of the Performing Arts as a means of communication between individuals and societies.
Film, Theatre, Dance, and Music are Neighborhood’s main areas of focus, together with the organization of cultural festivals. The organization is also dynamically involved in social action (awareness and development) and informal education, as well as in promoting cultural exchanges.
Neighbourhood is an agora. It will open up to new practices that offer people something to watch, think and debate. 

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