The Diary of Adam & Eve Play at LAU Byblos
Join the Lebanese American University in Byblos as it hosts a performance of the play “The Diary of Adam & Eve” by Mark Twain, and directed by Samar Khouri. The performance will take place in the Selina Korban Theater.
Synopsis: Originally broadcast on American Playhouse, this delightful adaptation is set in a Victorian garden and is structured as a series of diary entries by Adam and Eve. The play also works as a reader’s theatre piece. At first, Adam is puzzled by the new arrival in the garden and he is suspicious of her disturbing appetite for fruit.
Eve, believing herself to be some sort of experiment, is curious about another experiment in the garden, perhaps some sort of reptile or possibly architecture. Eve gives names to everything, much to Adam’s annoyance. He tries to ignore her, so she seeks companionship among the animals particularly with a certain snake. Adam and Eve grow to love each other and, in the end, an elderly Adam is filled with a realization of that love as he stands at Eve’s grave.
