Riding on a Cloud

Rabih Mroué's show is an impressive combination of the personal and political: for Riding on a Cloud he invites his brother Yasser to play the part of a character that resembles him personally. Someone who was injured in the Lebanese civil war and lost his ability to use words, Yasser began to shoot videos, which fuse with his recounted memories on stage to form a subjective picture of the political developments in Lebanon. Riding on a Cloud also describes the fragile construction of biography, that emerges between political reality, memories, facts and fiction. For Mroué this is always the starting point for artistic self-reflection, which he then transposes for theatre and exhibitions.

Opening night: 5 March 2013

Duration: 65 minutes

In Arabic with English, Hungarian and Romanian surtitles

Original title: أمتطي غيمة

With:

Yasser Mroué

Written and directed by Rabih Mroué

In collaboration with: Sarmad Louis

Assistant director: Petra Serhal

Assistant: Dina Ghalib Khouri

Co-produced by Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Claus Fonds, Hivos & Stichting DOEN – (The Netherlands).