Theatre Production Design (In Progress)
Madama Butterfly, Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Student: Ahmed Anter
La bohème , Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Student: kareem Abdel Salam
The Merchant of Venice , By William Shakespeare
Student: kareem Abdel Salam
Event: Abol Haggag Carnival
Student: Ahmed Yousef Abo Rageh
Site Specific Stage Design Location: Luxor, Egypt
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem written by an Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. He was a philosopher and theologist involved with religion and political issues in medieval Florence, his hometown. He started writing The Divine Comedy in 1308, and finished it in 1321.
Dante’s Divine Comedy is a complex work of art. It takes the reader through the nine circles of Hell, the seven terraces of Purgatory and the nine spheres of Paradise. Each of the parts of the journey are full of dead souls who suffer trying to rid themselves of their sins, or simply survive in the afterlife. It is filled with many historical figures, and mystical and mythological creatures.
The tragedy of Al-Hallaj by Salah Abdel Sabour
The Tragedy of Al-Hallaj, a poetic play written by the Egyptian poet Salah Abdel-Sabour, in which he dealt with the character of Al-Mansur bin Hussein Al-Hallaj, the mystic, who lived in the middle of the third century AH. The play consists of two chapters, which Abdel Sabour called parts. The first part: “The Word” and the second part: “Death.” This play is considered so far the most wonderful poetic play known to the Arab world. Salah Abdel-Sabour drops the poetic aspect, so the play is adorned with poetic images, rich in music. The most important feature of this play, which was published in 1966, was its prediction of the defeat of 1967, as it represented a voice outside the flock at a stage when Arab literature was living its national dreams with the Nasser tide. The prevailing symbols were July and the Pharaonic, Phoenician and Babylonian legends. Abdel-Sabour was the other face of this cultural wave through the personality of Al-Hallaj.
