“If I should define what happened in the Mediterranean and MENA region in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, I would refer to all these events, movements, revolutions, civil wars, and displacements as ‘the wave’. It is not a tsunami because the old concepts and structures still exist; it is rather a wave that repeats itself with different intensity and forces each time”.

The SYMPOSIUM kicks off with a keynote speech by Adel Abdel Wahab (Egypt), theatre director, founder, and Artistic Director of Hewar Independent Theatre Company and ‘Theatre is a Must’ Festival in Alexandria. Adel will focus on reality-based performances (works that draw on documents, testimonies, archival material, and conceptual movements), in order to highlight how the political struggles lead to new dramaturgical and representational approaches that shape a new theatre wave in the region, in the aftermath of the revolution.