Duration: 45 min
Information: In Arabic with German and English translation
A group of people wander through a stage space. It is constantly changing. The audience follows the desperate search of the lost people with excitement and could
suspect that the people are blind. This is not communicated. The group obviously doesn't know where they are. Or do they?
The title Speak So I May See You invites you into an original setting and serves as a game guide. To see or not to (be able to) see? To hear and not to hear
(be able to) hear? Saudi Arabian theatre-maker Yousef Ahmed Alharbi offers a theatrical experimental set-up in which the confusion between perception and truth, deception and disappointment is the driving force and disappointment is the driving force behind a tragic plot. In this way, he playfully examines the control mechanisms used to create hierarchies, orders and ultimately authoritarian power verticals Power verticals.
Whether the audience experiences a parable about blind allegiance and the dangers of outsourcing responsibility - or quite the opposite - is open to interpretation.
The fact that the audience perceives a different world to the people on stage is a theatre moment that is as simply staged as it is astonishing. This extraordinary work was created in Saudi Arabia, a country whose theatre culture is almost unknown in Europe. It is well known that Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian country. The production aims to bring unseen things about people to life, from a country that only became accessible to travellers a few years ago.
