Ness Gheir Chikel (Unusual People) - Hilarious Comic Play to be performed in Beirut, Lebanon

The IPG theatre troupe (International Performance Group) is proud to present its third show entitled "Nass Gheir Chikel" (unusual people): a free adaptation to spoken Arabic of "From the window" and "Hortense says, "I don't give a damn!" 2 one-act comedies of the famous French playwright Georges Feydeau. The show is directed by Lucien Bourjeily, produced by Jean Paul Haje, and performed by Tarek Annich, Sabine Ojeil, Carla Dib, Carla Kamel, Charbel Naim, Alexandre Genadri, Jean Paul Hage, Ziad Ghawi, and Jihane Nasrallah. The show will take place at the Beryte Theater (Damascus Road, Near the French Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon) on the 23rd, 24th, 30th, and 31st of March 2007. The show starts at 8:30 and is 1h 20 minutes long. For more information and/or reservations, please contact +9613984646.

(PRWEB) March 9, 2007 -- The IPG theatre troupe (International Performance Group) is proud to present its third show entitled "Nass Gheir Chikel" (unusual people): a free adaptation to spoken Arabic of "From the window" and "Hortense says, "I don't give a damn!" 2 one-act comedies of the famous French playwright Georges Feydeau. The show is directed by Lucien Bourjeily, produced by Jean Paul Haje, and performed by Tarek Annich, Sabine Ojeil, Carla Dib, Carla Kamel, Charbel Naim, Alexandre Genadri, Jean Paul Hage, Ziad Ghawi, and Jihane Nasrallah.
The show will take place at the Beryte Theater (Damascus Road, Near the French Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon) on the 23rd, 24th, 30th, and 31st of March 2007.

The show starts at 8:30 and is 1h 20 minutes long.
For more information and/or reservations, please contact +9613984646

About the Director:
Lucien Bourjeily started his theater studies in 1997 at the Lebanese Modern Theater School under the direction of the Lebanese/French theatrical pioneer Mounir Abou Debs. He also joined many acting workshops both in Lebanon and abroad.

As a stage actor, he has played leading roles in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" (1999) produced for the International Beiteddine Festival, "Night Signs" (2000), "The Dragon" (2000), Ionesco's "The Chairs" (2001-2003), and Chekhov's masterpiece Uncle Vania (2002) produced for the Freikeh Festival all under the direction of Mounir Abou Debs . He also played supporting/leading roles in many Lebanese short movies ("Maasat Tabieiya", "Patrick", "Nihayat El Bidaya", and "Escape")

His first encounter with directing was the short play "Moonlight" by Nisrine Ojeil (2001) performed as part of a nationwide "café crème, café théâtre" theater project. Afterwards, he adapted and directed "A Natural Tragedy" (2001) at the Irwin Theater (LAU, Beirut), in addition to The Bear (2004), The Employee (2004), and About Tobacco (2004) at the Monnot Theater in Beirut. Recently, he adapted and directed "A Jubilee" (2006) a 3 one-act comedies show (The Proposal, A Jubilee, and The Vine) by A. Chekhov at the Monnot Theater.

About the Author:

Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862-5 June 1921) was a French playwright known for his many lively farces.
Feydeau began a study of great farces in 1890, studying the works of Eugène Labiche, Henri Meilhac and Alfred Hennequin. This study brought him success with his play Champignol malgré lui (Champignol in Spite of Himself, 1892). Following this, Feydeau made a name for himself both in France and abroad, some of his plays opening overseas and in other languages before they opened in France.

Among his 60 plays are his famous Une puce à l'oreille (A Flea In Her Ear, 1907), La Dame de Chez Maxim (The Girl from Maxim's, 1899), and Hortense a dit: "J'm'en fous!" (Hortense says, "I don't give a damn!", 1916). Other notable Feydeau farces are L'Hôtel du libre échange (translated as Hotel Paradiso, 1894) and Le Dindon (Sauce for the Goose, 1896).

Though critics at the time dismissed Feydeau's works as light entertainment, he is now recognized as one of the great French playwrights of his era. Some have even gone so far as to refer to him as the "Bach of his form." His plays are seen today as precursors to Surrealist and Dada theatre, and the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays have been continuously revived and are still widely performed today.

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