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Born in Lebanon in 1968, Wajdi Mouawad grew up in his native country before flying for France and then Quebec, where he spent his teenage years. An author, stage director and comedian, he co-founded with Isabelle Leblanc, his first partner, the Théâtre Ô Parleur in 1991.
Incendies is a 2003 play by Wajdi Mouawad. [4] The play was translated into English as Scorched by Linda Gaboriau and was published in 2005 by Playwrights Canada Press.. The play was based on parts of the life of the Lebanese communist militant Souha Bechara.
Jun 13, 2024 · Who is Wajdi Mouawad? Wajdi Mouawad was born on October 16, 1968 in Deir el-Qamar, Lebanon. His childhood was marked by the Lebanese civil war, a conflict that forced his family to leave the country in 1977. After passing through France, they finally settled in Quebec, Canada, in 1983.
Nov 1, 2016 · The majority of these events came ahead of the massive wave of migration in the summer of 2015. For the 2015/16 season, the theatre wanted to go further and focus on telling a story of the vehemence, weight and impact of an ancient Greek play with its selection of Wajdi Mouawad’s Incendies/ Scorched, directed by Mirko Borscht.
Wajdi Mouawad is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as his 2003 play Scorched (French title Incendies). He was born in Lebanon in 1968, but fled the war-torn country with his family, living in Paris for a few years before settling in Montreal. In 1991, shortly after graduating from the National Theatre ...
Over the past twenty years, Wajdi Mouawad has risen to fame in Canada and internationally, acclaimed for the power of his writing and the originality of his vision as a theatre director. He is the author of an epic quartet for the stage, The Blood of Promises (Tideline, Scorched, Forests, Heavens), and two novels, Visage retrouvé and Anima, which won numerous prizes.
Aug 27, 2019 · It may be one reason why, eight years ago, Wajdi Mouawad decided to leave Canada behind. M ouawad was born in 1968, the youngest of three children. His family had lived in the Lebanese mountain village of Deir al-Qamar for centuries but in 1978, three years after the outbreak of civil war, left for Paris.
