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Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed [ 1 ] play Incendies (2003).
2017 — Anima (Wajdi Mouawad, Anima) 2019 — Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux) 2019 — Rite of Passage (Michel Tremblay, Le Passage obligé) 2022 — Kisses Deep (Michel Marc Bouchard, Embrasse) 2022 — Twists of Fate (Michel Tremblay, Au hasard la chance et Les cléfs du Paradise)
All the music is composed by the quartet Bertrand Cantat, Pascal Humbert, Bernard Falaise and Alexander MacSween on text translated from Sophocles by Robert Davreu and adapted for singing by Bertrand Cantat and Wajdi Mouawad, except for "Dithyrambe au soleil" written by Cantat and Mouawad, and "Bury Me Now" by Cantat alone.
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.
On 22 January 2020, Anima's Space Chickens in Space is nominated for "Best Ibero-American Animation Series" for the Quirino Awards, which awards honor the very best animation projects in LATAM, Spain & Portugal. The series is an Anima coproduction with Disney and Cake Entertainment. [127] [128] [129]
Director Denis Villeneuve first saw Wajdi Mouawad's play Incendies at Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal in 2004, commenting "I had this strong intuition that I was in front of a masterpiece". [9] Villeneuve acknowledged unfamiliarity with Arab culture, but was drawn to Incendies as "a modern story with a sort of Greek tragedy element". [10]
Scorched - by Wajdi Mouawad; The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets - by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and William S. Burroughs; Bashir Lazhar - by Évelyne de la Chenelière, translated by Morwyn Brebner; Moliere - by Sabina Berman; East of Berlin - by Hannah Moscovitch; Ubuntu - by The Ensemble; The Patient Hour - by Kristen Thomson
2013: Wajdi Mouawad, Anima; 2012: Jean-Noël Pancrazi, La Montagne; 2011: Pierre Assouline, Les vies de Job; 2010: Dominique Baudis, Les Amants de Gibraltar (Grasset) 2009: Alexandre Najjar, Phenicia (Plon) 2008: Louis Gardel, La baie d'Alger (Seuil) 2007: Emile Brami, Le manteau de la Vierge (Fayard)