WHISPERS- HAMASAT

WHISPERS- HAMASAT

Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 8 PM Beirut Time

Online Event on YouTube

Tickets available in Lebanon (40000LL) o
Tickets available Internationally (£12+booking fees- All currencies accepted):
E-tickets: a YouTube link with details on how to join will be emailed to you on the day of the event.
All proceeds from Whispers.Hamasat will go towards the rehabilitation of Beirut’s theatre scene following the blast of August 4th.
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Directed By Lina Abiad – Produced by Josyane Boulos (Beirut)  and Agatha Ezzedine (London)

Cast (by order of appearance): Dory al Samarany , Nada Abou Farhat, Bernadette Houdeib, Bechara Atallah, Agatha Ezzedine, Sany Abdul Baki,  Talal el Jurdi,  Nadine Labaki et Georges Khabbaz.  With Special Appearance by Rita Hayeck, Badih AbouChacra, Hagop Der Ghougassian and Josyane Boulos.

The authors : ( By alphabetical orders)  Geraldine Brennan, Mike Elliston, Kim Hardy, Angela Harvey, John Jesper, Kate Webster, Georges Khabbaz, Nadine Labaki.

The Story : Beirut. It is the afternoon of the 4th of August 2020, and a group of actors are pushing through the final rehearsals for a theater play entitled Whispers. The process is going less than smoothly and the show is slowly spinning out of control. 

In the devastating 2020 explosion, the largest non-nuclear blast in history, all of Beirut’s theatres were destroyed. Whispers International will unite British playwrights with acclaimed Lebanese artists; all the proceeds of this online production will go towards helping the theatres rebuild and to support emerging Lebanese artists to create art once more.

Facing a pandemic, a global theatre shutdown and Lebanon’s economic crisis which was only worsened by the explosion, the hardship facing Lebanese artists and producers is unprecedented. Many lost their studios, homes, and belongings. Talented artists are being driven out of the creative industry and out of the country in order to simply survive.

Six British playwrights – Mike Elliston, Geraldine Brennan, Kate Webster, Angela Harvey, Kim Hardy and John Jesper – have offered their texts free of charge to support their fellow theatre professionals in Lebanon. Addressing important issues including mental health, political injustice, women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights, the monologues have been adapted to mirror the current situation in Lebanon and have been translated into Lebanese Arabic with English and French subtitles.


Lors de l’explosion dévastatrice de 2020, la plus grande explosion non nucléaire de l’histoire, tous les théâtres de Beyrouth ont été détruits. Whispers International réunira des dramaturges britanniques avec des artistes libanais de renom; tous les profits de cette production en ligne serviront à aider les théâtres à se reconstruire et à aider les artistes libanais émergents à créer à nouveau de l’art.

Face à une pandémie, à la fermeture mondiale des théâtres et à la crise économique du Liban qui n’a été qu’aggravée par l’explosion, les difficultés auxquelles sont confrontés les artistes et producteurs libanais sont sans précédent. Beaucoup ont perdu leur studio, leur maison et leurs biens. Des artistes talentueux sont chassés de l’industrie créative et du pays pour simplement survivre.

Six dramaturges britanniques – Mike Elliston, Geraldine Brennan, Kate Webster, Angela Harvey, Kim Hardy et John Jesper – ont offert leurs textes gratuitement pour soutenir leurs collègues professionnels du théâtre au Liban. Abordant des questions importantes telles que la santé mentale, l’injustice politique, les droits des femmes et les droits LGBTQ +, les monologues ont été adaptés pour refléter la situation actuelle au Liban et ont été traduits en arabe libanais sous-titrés en anglais et en français.

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