"They hope for peace, waiting to return to the graves of their loved ones and being able once again to smell the sweet jasmine of home. Until then, theatre can go some way in helping them to come to terms with the events."
Tabitha Ross sat down with dramaturg, Mohammad Al-Attar, as he explains dramaturgy, the challenges of re-imagining Antigone with a group of Syrian women refugees, unorthodox casting methods, and Antigone of Syria as a struggle against patriarchal authority.
Tabitha Ross grabbed a coffee with Director Omar Abusaada, to talk about how he’s going about re-imagining a play written over 2000 years ago with Syrian refugee women today, why it’s important to do so, and what led him to this point.