Our review of Square root of the verb to be, at the Théâtre de la Colline: Wajdi Mouawad a storyteller, a real

Wajdi Mouawad is a skillful playwright.

A sect of zealots has been following his work for twenty years.

A wider circle discovered him a little over ten years ago when, in 2009 at the Avignon Festival, he created the quartet

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Appointed director of the Théâtre de la Colline in April 2016, he naturally became a must and that's how there was a crowd the other night to discover, at home, his last six-hour show,

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Spectators were not mistaken, this fresco of a Lebanese family is remarkable for many reasons.

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The saga - which spans four decades, from 1978 to the present day - is condensed here into a week in the life of one man.

In 1978, this man was then ten years old.

His name is Talyani Waqar Malik.

He lives in Beirut, a city under constant construction.

First of all, let's try to explain the principle or the ambition: suppose you were born in such a place on such a date...

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