Within the constant shift of people and cultures and global demographic changes, how can we create a space to connect with one another? In today's metropolises, people are constantly crossing paths and rarely meeting each other. Fear of the other, intolerance, isolation and loneliness plague our contemporary societies. Today engaging in an act of love toward a stranger is a form of resistance.
This performance is an investigation of love as a risk-a drive that drives us into the present moment, together. Like theater, love takes place in the "here" and "now" and allows individuals to transform the irrevocability of their past and the projections of their future into infinite possibilities in the present. Much of our literature studies human behavior by placing the inevitability of death at the center of all truth, as a fatality looming on the horizon and defining human action; framing "the end of the story." But what if we were to study the middle of the story -- the climax of life's adventure -- through cases of falling in love?
Inspired by the love poetry of Arab Andalusia, a melting pot of cultures and religions in many ways a symbol of tolerance and coexistence, and starting from a broad definition of love, we study love as a succession of ephemeral moments that define people's various journeys. A collection of real love stories of people from different communities and cultures; especially those people who went through difficult circumstances and encountered love in unexpected places, and how it affected their paths and views about the world.
**Zoukak Theatre Company **(Lebanon)
Ellen Stewart International Award Winner