{"id":33304,"date":"2024-06-07T09:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T07:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=33304"},"modified":"2024-06-07T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T07:43:30","slug":"the-return-of-danton-a-play-by-mudar-alhaggi-collective-malouba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/the-return-of-danton-a-play-by-mudar-alhaggi-collective-malouba\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Return of Danton<\/em>\u2014a Play by Mudar Alhaggi &#038; Collective Ma\u2019louba"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A play about the French Revolution, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return to Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a prism through which its Syrian actors and theatre makers consider their own revolution and life as artists in exile.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mudar Alhaggi<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collective <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ma\u2019louba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes its name from \u201cupside down\u201d in Arabic. It was founded by Syrian theatre makers and graduates from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, now in exile and based in Europe. The collective\u2019s theatrical works reflect on the lived experiences of Arabs in a global context: their historical, political and colonial links and the unsettled status of existence. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/collective_malouba\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collective Ma\u2019louba<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s topical plays include themes of migration, identity, culture, freedom, and the nature of theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their productions \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GfD33NT6eCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your Love Is Fire<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2017), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Days in the Sun<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2018), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reine Formsache<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2019), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return of Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2021); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ibsenscope.com\/grants\/winner\/up-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up There<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022), a play about Duma women\u2019s prison in Damascus, which received an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ibsenscope.com\/grants\/winner\/up-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibsen Scope<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> award; and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/factoryinternational.org\/whats-on\/the-long-shadow-of-alois-brunner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2023) \u2014 have toured extensively and have been performed at Theater an der Ruhr M\u00fclheim, Kammerspiele M\u00fcnchen, Made in Germany Festival Stuttgart, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Novi Sad, Serbia, Euro-scene Leipzig, and Factory International, Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collective Ma&#039;louba \/ THE RETURN OF DANTON\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NqPmOy2XKAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return of Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was featured at 2021 Shubbak Festival and Refugee Week, in London. The play tells the story of a company of German-based Syrian actors in rehearsal for a contemporary adaptation of Georg B\u00fcchner\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a German classic that has at its center the conflict between two giants of the French Revolution, Danton and Robespierre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return to Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Syrian company\u2019s director believes their adaptation of B\u00fcchner\u2019s play will secure the group funding. However, the playwright turned dramaturge is more committed to the idea of writing a new play about the everyday lives of Syrian refugees, in Europe. As the Syrian company wrestles with B\u00fcchner\u2019s manically intense play, life mirrors art as the two lead actors are caught up in the arguments between the writer and director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between catastrophic line runs and overlong cigarette breaks \u2014 and for one of them, spliff breaks \u2014 the four lock horns about their conflicted views on the Syrian revolution and their roles as artists in exile. Tensions and disagreements grow as the company \u2014 almost unknowingly \u2014 engage more deeply with the themes of the play: what is a revolution? When does it end? Ten years after the Syrian revolution, do they really understand what happened and how they can tell their story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, The Stage called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return to Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cA nuanced piece of meta theatre about revolution and German theatre \u2026 a clever, multi-dimensional piece of writing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collective Ma\u2019louba was initiated in 2016 by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-an-der-ruhr.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theater an der Ruhr<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to offer professional working conditions to Syrian artists in Germany. It was the company in residence until 2021 and still rehearses there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\"><strong>The Return of Danton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Scene 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Day 5.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Complete darkness \u2026 spotlight on<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyas standing at the front<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the stage)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return of Danton.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did Danton return? Why did he return? Who is Danton?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello. My name is Eyas \u2026 Syrian director living in Germany since 2015. I\u2019m the director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return of Danton,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which I\u2019ll talk to you about. Maybe many of you know the play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the German author Georg B\u00fcchner, the writer who lived from 1813 to 1837, meaning he lived for 23 years only. He wrote three plays only but nevertheless left a big mark on German theatre, particularly his play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8230; Why this play in particular? For many reasons but the main reason in my opinion is that the play deals with what could be considered the most important event in the history of Europe and the modern world, namely the French Revolution \u2026 specifically the period after the victory of the revolution &#8230; the period known as the Reign of Terror &#8230; The play centers around the last days of George Danton who was one of the leaders of the French Revolution &#8230; He participated in the overthrow of the monarchy and he took part in the massacres that the revolutionaries carried out to wipe out the monarchy. However, Danton objected to the policies of his comrade Robespierre, which were excessively bloody so much so that the guillotine became the symbol of the period. He raised the slogan of the rule of virtuous through terror. Danton objected to Robespierre\u2019s policies and called for an end to the killings and laying the foundations for a just civil life for which the revolution was launched. Robespierre considered Danton corrupted and if left to his own devices could jeopardize the gains of the revolution and see to it that the obsolete monarchy is returned. And so Robespierre decides that Danton and his followers must be driven to the guillotine like all the enemies of the revolution and the enemies of virtue &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first time I read <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton&#8217;s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I was a student at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, I was forced to read it &#8230; I did not like it. The language was difficult, and the idea of the revolution at the time in 2001, 2002 was something beyond imagination, something that could not happen in reality. After the Syrian revolution in 2011, I thought about the play. I read it more than once, the language was still difficult, but the difference is that the revolution that the play is talking about was no longer something imaginary or coming from the depths of history. I started to read about the play and about the French revolution. I became preoccupied with the topic even though it was clear that there is no comparison between the two revolutions, but during the research there were many interesting details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example when I looked at the drawings illustrating the Reign of Terror like the image of the severed heads held up next to the guillotine, I could stare at the image, looking at every detail &#8230; at the same time, I couldn\u2019t look at a single image coming from Syria &#8230; I noticed that as I read and researched the subject my mind would wonder &#8230; I would think &#8230; as if I relied on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to find the answers for the difficult questions that the Syrian revolution posed. What does a revolution mean &#8230; what does it mean that a revolution succeeds or fails &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I noticed also that the sentence that Robespierre says \u201cto carry out a revolution by halves is to dig your own grave\u201d is a phrase that is very common in the Arab world, especially after the Arab Spring. On Google, I found lots of articles with that title. They were all articles from Arab countries where revolutions had taken place and almost all of these articles were critical of the revolutions. What\u2019s strange is that many sources attribute the saying to Mao Zedong even though Robespierre said it long before him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does all this mean to me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I need all this &#8230; to understand &#8230; to understand why it happened &#8230; how we reached this state &#8230; to understand why now exactly &#8230; I\u2019m standing here before you and I will tell you why I\u2019m working on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8230; Understanding for me is not a wish &#8230; it\u2019s a need\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(to Rahaf)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you need to say something about how you are going to work on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe &#8230; Maybe it\u2019s better I don\u2019t talk about that specifically &#8230; because honestly I\u2019m not ready to talk about it &#8230; nothing is clear to me &#8230; there are many things in my head &#8230; videos &#8230; images &#8230; voices &#8230; but I\u2019m afraid to say something I\u2019m not sure about &#8230; Whatever I say will be counted against me &#8230; and could affect the way they see the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If someone asks you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as I know there won\u2019t be questions from the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually at such a presentation for financiers, there is a Q&amp;A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it happens, I\u2019ll find a solution &#8230; I\u2019ll manage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, can we sit and talk a little &#8230; Zeno is here to solve the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is nothing to solve &#8230; He stops smoking hash then we can work together &#8230; that\u2019s all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, if that\u2019s the way it is then I\u2019ll say goodbye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One sec &#8230; can we talk &#8230; hear each other out &#8230; try to solve the problem &#8230; please sit down if you don\u2019t mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Zeno sits at one end of the table,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyas at the other, Rahaf in the middle)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go ahead Zeno.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t stop smoking hash &#8230; I\u2019ve been living like this for ten years and I\u2019m fine. I live my life the way I like it &#8230; and I work as DJ, a job I love, after acting of course &#8230; But I\u2019m done with acting. I don\u2019t want to do it. Who am I going to act for &#8230; in what language &#8230; Our brother here came and started filling my head with projects, dreams and stories &#8230; so OK, I came to work with you. I stopped my job temporarily to see what will happen with this troupe &#8230; Then you come and tell me to stop smoking hash &#8230; and stop DJing and you make me love acting\u00a0 &#8230; then with the first problem you tell me I\u2019m not needed &#8230; You\u2019re not needed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zeno \u2026 we\u2019re trying to solve the problem, not make it worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zeno I appreciate you coming. But you are making things difficult for me. What you are demanding is impossible. For a troupe to succeed here in Germany it has to fight and the first thing to fight against is ourselves \u2026You can\u2019t be a professional actor, successful and in demand while a hash cigarette is constantly in your hand &#8230; it\u2019s impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t want to be a successful actor, bro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liar &#8230; do you want me to remind you when we were drunk &#8230;You were crying and saying, \u201cI want to act Eyas. I want to act.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes you said that. And a girl was in the bar, she felt sorry for you and came over and hugged you. And in the end, you went home together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Me!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not true and if true then I was drunk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to act or not that\u2019s up to you &#8230; but if you want to continue with us, you have to stop the hash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re really ambitious &#8230; I can\u2019t stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can but you don\u2019t want to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine I stopped the hash \u2026 and I committed to the work &#8230; And I regained my desire for acting \u2026 and everything is fine as you want it &#8230; Imagine I do all that and we don\u2019t get the funding \u2026 Or we get the funding but the audience doesn\u2019t like the play &#8230; Imagine the audience doesn\u2019t even get the play\u2026 what should I do then?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t look at it this way, you have to take a chance, you have to sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He tells me to sacrifice &#8230; Bro, I\u2019m happy as I am, I don\u2019t want to sacrifice &#8230; then you think if the project doesn\u2019t succeed I can go back to my life as normal &#8230; no, it\u2019s not true at all &#8230; going back to my life will be more difficult &#8230; because you awakened a dream that I buried for ten years &#8230; I don\u2019t want to waste another ten years of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, the choice is yours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will work with you but on my terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33374\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33374\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1.TheReturnofDanton-38.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1.TheReturnofDanton-38.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1.TheReturnofDanton-38-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1.TheReturnofDanton-38-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinan Hmeidan in Collective Ma\u2019louba\u2019s <em>The Return of Danton<\/em>\u00a0(photo Franziska G\u00eetzen).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It won\u2019t work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you both listen to me &#8230; both of you are right \u2026 but both of you are holding onto your positions &#8230; we need to be flexible to solve the problem &#8230; that means Zeno won\u2019t stop the hash completely but reduce it &#8230; he\u2019ll smoke the bare minimum that puts him in a good mood &#8230; at the same time he can concentrate and work with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can you guarantee that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve prepared a letter of agreement that stipulates all you want &#8230; the both of you &#8230; I\u2019ll read it to you and you tell me what you think. A letter of agreement between the director Eyas and the actor Zeno.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zeno agrees to smoke no more than one joint a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zeno will smoke the joint in stages so that it won\u2019t affect his concentration or the rehearsal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smoking will be either before the rehearsal or afterwards and during breaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The director has to facilitate the smoking stipulated above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The actor has to stick to the quantities stipulated above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dramaturge, Rahaf, will make sure both parties adhere to this agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It won\u2019t work. What guarantees for me how long the joint will be or how much hash it will contain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fuck you, you won\u2019t even agree to one joint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK one joint that won\u2019t exceed three centimeters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep your three centimeters for your mother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the hash will be a quarter of a gram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear god you tyrant &#8230; don\u2019t you have sisters who smoke hash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s all I have for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">habibi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the joint will be five centimeters and the quantity of hash half a gram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three centimeters and a quarter gram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four centimeters and the quantity a third of a gram &#8230; agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Silence)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agreed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agreed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now kiss and make up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we do that a question &#8230; When I cried and said I want to act &#8230; and the girl came to hug me and I went with her &#8230; was she pretty?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I swear she was very pretty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Enter Mohammed)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did she say what her name was &#8230; can you remember her name or anything about her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabina &#8230; you swear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I swear &#8230; Sabina. OK Guys I have to take a call with a newspaper. I won\u2019t be long &#8230; prepare the confrontation scene between Robespierre and Danton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man, I just arrived now. Let me smoke a cigarette first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smoke as you prepare the scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Mohammed, Zeno and Rahaf exit)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Eyas dials a number and speaks in broken English)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, hello carina, I am ready, is it ok to speak in English? Yes please &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am here in Germany since 2015, no I am here alone, no this is not my first project here in Germany, I do theatre workshops with refugees and we did many plays together with German artists, what? \u2026 Sorry? Can you please repeat the question &#8230; me &#8230; by plane &#8230; yes I came to Germany by plane &#8230; No no boat \u2026 Sorry no boat \u2026 Yes I had a Schengen visa \u2026 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ya<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sorry Schengen visa &#8230; Yes it is a very good for me to be here in Germany working in German theatre with German artists it is amazing &#8230; You cannot imagine how great it is &#8230; amazing &#8230; wow \u2026 Awesome &#8230; yes and specially this project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the return of Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> let me tell you why Danton &#8230; Because \u2026 sorry &#8230; ah ok &#8230; Now theatre in Syria is very difficult to make theatre in Syria if you are not supporting al-Assad &#8230; so as example I cannot present <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the return of Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Syria you know why &#8230; Because &#8230; ah ok &#8230; Who? The refugees &#8230; I don\u2019t know if the refugees will come to see our show &#8230; I don\u2019t know if the refugees go to theatre in Germany &#8230; I don\u2019t know &#8230; I don\u2019t know &#8230; I don\u2019t know \u2026 Sorry I did not understand &#8230; My opinion &#8230; about what? &#8230; Integration &#8230; Well I think integration is very important yes it is very, very important &#8230; I like the integration &#8230; and you see that when you know why I am doing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the return of Danton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because &#8230; ah ok &#8230; that is it &#8230; ah ok &#8230; Thank you \u2026 goodbye &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come on guys, are you ready?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Enter Rahaf, Zeno, Mohammed and<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">begin preparing the scene of the<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">confrontation between Robespierre<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Mohammed) and Danton (Zeno).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Costume and set design reflects the<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">French revolution period).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I tell you, whoever holds my arm back when I draw the sword is my enemy. His motives are beside the point. He who hinders me in my self-defense kills me, as surely as if he had attacked himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DANTON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where self-defense ends murder begins. I see no necessity for going on with these killings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The social revolution is not yet accomplished. To carry out a revolution by halves is to dig your own grave. The society of the privileged is not yet dead. Vice must be punished, virtue must rule through the Terror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DANTON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t understand the word \u201cpunished.\u201d You and your virtue, Robespierre! You\u2019ve taken no money, you\u2019ve run up no debts, you\u2019ve slept with no women, you\u2019ve always worn a decent coat and never got drunk. Robespierre, you are infuriatingly righteous. I would be ashamed to wander between heaven and earth for 30 years with such a priggish face, for the miserable pleasure of finding others less virtuous than myself. Is there no small, secret voice in you whispering just occasionally: \u201cYou are a fraud?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My conscience is clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DANTON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conscience is a mirror before which a monkey punishes itself. Everyone rigs himself up in what finery he has and goes out to have fun in his own way. We all try to defend ourselves against spoilsports. Is it right that you turn the guillotine into a washtub for other people\u2019s stained linen just because your own coat is brushed and clean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re perfectly entitled to hit out if people spit on it or tear holes in it. But what business is it of yours if they leave you in peace? Why should you lock them up in a coffin so long as they don\u2019t get in your way? Are you God\u2019s policeman? And if the sight\u2019s too much for you, as it seems to be for your blessed Almighty, then put a handkerchief over your eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You deny the existence of virtue?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DANTON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And of vice. Everyone acts according to his nature \u2014 in other words he does what does him good. But it\u2019s cruel to kick your stilts from under you like this, eh, Incorruptible?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton, there are periods when vice is high treason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DANTON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For God\u2019s sake don\u2019t proscribe it. That would be ungrateful. You owe it too much \u2014 by contrast, I mean. But to use your own terminology, our blows must be of service to the republic. We mustn\u2019t strike the innocent along with the guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who says that a single innocent man has suffered?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DANTON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not one innocent man dead!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(On his way out)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s not a moment to lose; we must show ourselves! &#8230; Who am I saying this to?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s talking to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s not a moment to lose; we must show ourselves! &#8230; saying that to himself! It doesn\u2019t work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He says this to Paris who is next to him throughout the scene. But I removed this character &#8230; I don\u2019t even understand why Paris is in the scene. He doesn\u2019t say a word. OK, leave the sentence. There\u2019s not a moment to lose; we must show ourselves! \u2026 myself &#8230; I must show myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have to show myself now &#8230; this won\u2019t do \u2026 you can\u2019t solve things this way \u2026 When Buchner wrote this scene, he could have just had Robespierre and Danton on their own. But instead he had Paris with them. Why is that? And why doesn\u2019t he say anything? You can\u2019t just skip over these questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have an answer to these questions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No &#8230; but we have to search for the answers &#8230; we have to think and put down hypotheses and test them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want me to do all that in ten days &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back again to the issue of time \u2026 could you find another excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another excuse &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Long silence)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(To Zeno and Mohammed)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave us alone if you don\u2019t mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we want to hear this conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave us alone. Meanwhile Mohammed, prepare the Saint-Just speech if you don\u2019t mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(They exit)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you want?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do it right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You think the way I work is wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I see that the way you work is wrong \u2026 what\u2019s the solution?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should be flexible \u2026 because I\u2019m the dramaturge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m the director and my job is to make this project achieve the goals we\u2019ve agreed on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal we\u2019ve agreed on is to make a play that represents us all \u2026 not just you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it part of the dramaturge\u2019s job to prove to the whole team that they are all idiots and she\u2019s the only clever one?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you want?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want you to be with me &#8230; to help me \u2026 everything you are doing until now is to prove that I am wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you want me to agree with everything you say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want you to trust me &#8230; the way I envision the project is what will get us the funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means we don\u2019t have the same goal. You care about the funding, I care about a show that reflects me and that I can defend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You won\u2019t reach your goal if I don\u2019t reach mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they are the opposite of each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No &#8230; Let\u2019s put it another way. Our goal is one. But there is a transitional goal we need to achieve to reach the greater goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m leaving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t want you to give me a role so I could stay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are you talking about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is what\u2019s happening &#8230; I was the writer on the other project we were planning which I was and still am working on &#8230; now with the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I have no place &#8230; You\u2019ve designated me as dramaturge but the truth is that there is no role for a dramaturge in the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How long we tried to get funding for your project and failed? &#8230; The idea of doing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has at least given us the opportunity to meet with financiers &#8230; we\u2019ve talked for a while about doing a Syrian version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danton\u2019s Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8230; and you liked the idea &#8230; and for that to happen we have to use the time wisely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ve decided all this on your own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had to make the decision on my own &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, I want you to answer one question &#8230; why do you want a dramaturge working with you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your role as dramaturge in the project is important but not at this stage because we don\u2019t have time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you need me now when you are creating the whole show &#8230; and you are doing it on the wrong basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not wrong, Rahaf. Just because you don\u2019t like it and it doesn\u2019t sit with your way of thinking doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s wrong \u2026 They way I see it is that putting the story of the two revolutions, the French and the Syrian through Danton\u2019s story is important \u2026 I like as an artist to do that, I\u2019m not faking it just to get funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don&#8217;t want to prove that you are cheating to get the financing &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are afraid that we are appearing to cheat in order to get funding\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like it is too big a stone &#8230; Either we leave the stone \u2026 or we think of the right way to carry it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What big stone &#8230; why too big? If you are afraid then you couldn\u2019t carry a pebble &#8230; who decides what size stone we can carry. Why must I be frightened how people will evaluate my work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t need to be frightened &#8230; but you have to care &#8230; You have to give the work its due &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t start rehearsals until I\u2019ve read everything about the history of Europe and the French revolution, until I have a clear and detailed argument for why I want to do the show &#8230; without that I don\u2019t have the right to do the play&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are you defending?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m defending my right to make a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Mohammed enters suddenly<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and quickly and begins gathering<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his things to leave)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m sorry &#8230; I have to leave now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happened?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing I just have to see Widad and talk to her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something happened?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Same story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you can talk later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does that mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It means we finish the rehearsal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you serious &#8230; you want me to continue in this state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EYAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course that\u2019s what I want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK Mr. Eyas &#8230; I\u2019ll do the Saint-Just monologue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAINT-JUST<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There seem to be in this assembly some delicate ears which cannot stand the sound of the word \u201cblood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A variation in the chemical composition of the air, an outbreak of subterranean fire, a change of balance in a body of water, and an epidemic, a volcanic eruption, a flood swallow up thousands. What is the result? A minor, scarcely perceptible alteration of physical nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shall a phenomenon which is completely remolding moral nature, that is man, draw back at the sight of blood? History works through these arms of ours in the spiritual sphere just as, in the physical, it works through volcanoes and floods. What difference does it make if those men move their last in an epidemic or in a revolution? Moses led his people through the Red Sea and into the wilderness till the old corrupt generation was exterminated, before he founded his new state. Legislators! We have no Red Sea and no wilderness, but we have war and the guillotine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Mohammed snaps out of the role)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOHAMMED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There you go, man. Fuck you and fuck the stage and fuck the revolution and fuck Danton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Takes his bag and exits)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAHAF<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll go with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Exits)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are we done for the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Silence)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZENO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can I roll a joint?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Silence, Eyas exits, Zeno rolls<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a joint, darkness).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A play about the French Revolution highlights the experiences of Syrian actors and theatre makers as artists in exile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":33372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3588],"tags":[3608,3604,614,3606,1450,1638,1650,3607,1695],"coauthors":[3605],"class_list":["post-33304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theatre","category-tmr-42-theatre","tag-danton","tag-dantons-death","tag-exile","tag-frenchrevolution","tag-refugee","tag-syria","tag-syrian-revolution","tag-syrianrevolution","tag-theatre","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Return of Danton\u2014a Play by Mudar Alhaggi &amp; 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