Speak So I May See You - Yousef Ahmed Al-Harbi | THEATER DER WELT

In the organizer's words:

A powerful play about confusion and confusion, also a parable about orientation, authority and destructive hope in a play.

A group of people wander through a stage space. It is constantly changing. The audience follows the desperate search of the lost with excitement and might assume that the people are blind. This is not communicated. Obviously, the group does not know where they are. Or do they?
The title Speak So I May See You invites you into an original setting and serves as a game guide. To see or not to (be able to) see? Hearing and not (being able to) hear? Saudi Arabian theater maker Yousef Ahmed Alharbi offers a theatrical experiment in which the confusion between perception and truth, deception and disappointment is the driving force behind a tragic plot. In this way, he playfully examines the control mechanisms used to create hierarchies, orders and ultimately authoritarian power verticals.
Whether the audience experiences a parable about blind allegiance and the dangers of outsourcing responsibility - or quite the opposite - is open to interpretation.

The fact that the audience perceives a different world to the people on stage is a theatrical moment that is as simply staged as it is astonishing. This extraordinary work was created in Saudi Arabia, a country whose theater culture is almost unknown in Europe. It is well known that Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian country. The production aims to bring unseen things about people to life, from a country that only became accessible to travelers a few years ago.

Venue: Spinnbau - puppet theater
Duration: 45 min
Introduction: 30 minutes before the start of each performance (performance on 04.07.2026 followed by a discussion)
Information: In Arabic with German and English surtitles

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A festival of the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute e.V.
Organized by Chemnitz Theatres, the Festival Academy Brussels and the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 GmbH.

Price information:

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