In Berlin, a Syrian refugee accidentally recognizes the voice of his former, brutal interrogator from Damascus. Determined to find justice, he turns to a German lawyer to file a lawsuit against him.
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KEY VISUAL Yesterday's Encounter
This decision leads to a confrontation with his own remembering and forgetting, revealing and concealing, and raises profound questions about morality and the subjectivity of truth in the experience of life under a terror regime.
The premiere of the play in German translation took place in 2024 at the Theater Freiburg.
For the first time, the manmaRo group is performing this text in the Arabic/English original as a staged reading at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
(Arabic/English reading)
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Participating artists
Ofira Henig
Felix Goeser
Makram J. Khoury
Carlos Gharzuzi
Aseel Farhat
Maya Omaya Keesh
Atallah Tannous
Adan Rabous
