Lucena, Obedience Training at Monnot Theatre

As part of the “Orient the Day, Beirut in the Work of Ibsen” series of events, the Monnot Theatre will be hosting the Zoukak Theatre Company who will be performing a play entitled Lucena, Obedience Training.

Synopsis: This is a theatrical work that questions the authoritarian model that governs religion, society and theatre. The work summons Ibsen’s “Emperor and Galilean” from history, the text which called upon the Roman Emperor Julian, who in turn summoned the gods and philosophers of ancient Greece, declaring the freedom of belief and the plurality of deities. It is a journey of old power conflicts in the skies and on earth. It is a tale of a society whose members are on the steps of the ruling ladder linking heaven to earth. It’s the story of a theatre company exiled and isolated in a certain time and spaces as its members are trained on obedience, for they might subordinate.