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8.07.2009



Our performance in Amioun took place during the village summer festival. The festival was held in the old city and in order to set up properly the area was largely barred from car traffic, which necessitated Denise and I arriving several hours prior to the actors in order to accompany the BIM van and unload all props and materials on arrival. The librarian there kindly took us to a delicious late lunch to pass the time.

As for the show itself, it was unique in that we were given access to sound! All the actors shared a microphone and huge speakers on either side of the stage greatly enhanced the audience's audio pleasure. Lights were another added bonus, giving the performance a fairy tale like quality for the second half of the event once dusk had set in. This quality was furthered when, at the pause between the two pieces, two childrens' mascots made their way into the performance space to entertain the children.

A new twist emerged during Tanbouri: Mohammad ( actor playing the fisherman) decided that the fisherman must be taken to the hospital in an ambulance after having smelled Tanbouri's old shoes rather than simply passing out as in the first few showings. The audience was thoroughly amused, laughing particularly hard at this point, and so the addition was solidified and repeated the next day at Jezzine's staging.

After the show, we traveled back to Beirut and the actors and management gathered at Kabab ji, a Lebanese fast food restaurant of superior quality, for a feast to recharge our batteries and discuss the innovations of the show in preparation for the next day's performance!

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