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Riding on a Cloud

Riding on a Cloudis a theatre production by Lebanese Rabih Mroué.

Rabih Mroué is responsible for the text and direction.

The production is performed at Black Box Teater during Oslo International Theatre Festival 2015.

Information

(Objekt ID 47164)
Object type Production
Premiere March 20, 2015
Audience Adults
Language Arabic and English
Subtitles English
Keywords Theatre, Performance, Biographical theatre, Metatheatre, Video, Movie
Website Black Box Teater
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At the website of Black Box Teater the following, among other things, is written about Riding on a Cloud:

"Riding on a Cloud is based on the true story of artist Rabih Mroué's younger brother, Yasser Mroué. At age seventeen, Yasser suffered from aphasia after being shot in the head during the Lebanese Civil War. Left with a 'problem with representations', he could recognize people and things when they were in front of him but not when shown to him as images. The doctor recommended that Yasser begin to make images as a way of recovering an understanding of the relationship between reality and representation.

Mroué's performance tackles precisely the same relationship. (...) Yasser appears on stage as himself, speaks about his life, and projects the videos he produced as a part of his recovery. Woven through these autobiographical gestures is a meditation on the metamorphoses that occur in the act of creating narratives."

Supported by: Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Claus Fonds, Hivos & Stichting DOEN.

SOURCES:

Black Box Teater, blackbox.no, 02.03.2015,  http://www.blackbox.no/tittel/riding-on-a-cloud/

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 20.02.2015

Contributors (5)
Name Role
Rabih Mroué – Author
Sarmad Louis – Direction
Rabih Mroué – Direction
Yasser Mroué – Performer
Rabih Mroué – Main producer
Performance dates
October 3, 2015 19.00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet Show
October 2, 2015 19.00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet Show
March 21, 2015Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 20, 2015 21:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) National premiere, Norway
Festivals (1)