Festivals

Triangles at 98Weeks Project Space

Saturday, Mar 29, 2014
1:30pm -> 3:00pm
98 Weeks Project Space

Attend Triangles, an event happening in Amharic, Arabic, and English.

Triangles is a festival-in-progress that translates, workshops, and reimagines three plays through a series of residencies and public encounters in Beirut and New York and an array of collaborations with groups and artists in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United States, and beyond.

The project engages a range of languages and communities in a slow-cooking, collaborative, creative process. With Triangles, Masrah Ensemble seeks to cultivate a new dynamic between artists and audiences and to invite audiences to participate and play a central role in playwriting, translation, and performance development. Works- and translations-in-progress include plays by resident writers alongside Yekermo Sew (Tomorrow’s Man) by Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (1936-2006).

About the Featured Artists:
Yasser Abu Shaqra was born in Damascus and is a writer and theatre maker. His poetry has been published and translated to Danish in the collection Safaa Yom Jadeed (Fine New Day). He is the 2014 Masrah Ensemble Playwright-in-Residence.

Daniel Balabane is a performing artist, dancer, musician, actor, and theatre teacher. He trained in Lebanon and Spain and has performed in Tunisia, France, Egypt, and throughout Lebanon.

Alexander Borinsky is a playwright, performer, and director. The author of six full-length plays and a member of Youngblood, a collective of emerging professional playwrights in New York, he is a participant in the Global Connections–ON the ROAD program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American theatre.

Rahel Zegeye is an activist, and film and theater maker. She is the author of the play Shouting without a Listener (2013), and her film Beirut (2011) centers on four fictional characters who are domestic workers in Lebanon. Rahel and her projects have attracted the attention of international media outlets such as Al Jazeera and the BBC.