Rasha OMRAN

The One Who Dwelt in the House Before Me

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bilingual spectacle (Arabic / English) directed by Henri jules Julien) with Rasha Omran (poems in Arabic), Nanda Mohammad (poems in French), Isabelle Duthoit (chant), Christophe Cardoen (lightning)

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The One Who Dwelt in the House Before Me is an oratorio of voices: in Arabic, the voice of the poet herself; in English, the voice of the great English-speaking Syrian actress Nanda Mohammad; and in an unidentified and striking idiom, the voice of the French improviser Isabelle Duthoit.

On an empty stage, in a moving half-light, Rasha Omran plunges us into the heart of the days of a woman, alone in her apartment, who feels the presence of the one who lived there alone before her. She reveals the failures of love, the feeling of loss, the fear of fading memories.

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