Amman Trilogy, Solo performance, 2023-2026, 50 minutes

Narrated through words, dance and physical theatre, ‘Amman Trilogy’ consists of 3 solos, 7ariga (inferno), Jawaherxx0 and Mazaher (Rosewater), that take place in the streets of Amman after midnight. The idea for the work was inspired by the phenomenological mapping of Cairo in Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy stories. Mahfouz featured the city not as place, but as an immersive atmosphere. Amman becomes an experience to be lived, through the eyes of an unreliable narrator, an alterego called Jawaherxx0.

Premiere: September 2023, IDEA festival, National Centre for Culture and Arts, Amman, Jordan

Photos: R. Fakhouri