Rabih Mroué

“Looking for a Missing Employee”, 2003, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut  

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1967

born in Beirut, Lebanon

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, playwright and a TDR Contributing Editor. In 1990 he began putting on his own plays, performances, and videos. Continuously searching for new and contemporary relations among all the different elements and languages of the theatre art forms, Mroué questions the definitions of theatre and the relationship between space and form of the performance and, consequently, questions how the performer relates with the audience. His works deal with the issues that have been swept under the table in the current political climate of Lebanon. He draws much-needed attention to the broader political and economic contexts by means of a semi-documentary theatre….


Exhibitions/Performances
2009 “The Inhabitants of images” a lecture performance co-produced by Bidoun Magazine, TQW in Vienna, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2008 “Noiseless” a short animation produced by CINE-POEM
“Theater with dirty feet”, lecture-performance for HAU 2, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
2007 “How Nancy wished that everything was an April Fool’s Joke” with Fadi Toufiq
2006 “ Make Me Stop Smoking”, Oberhausen film festival
“Look at the Light Moving Between the Buildings”, Siemens Art Program, Munich
“Leap into the Void”, an installation work, Gallery Sfeir-Selmer, Beirut
2004

“Life is Short But the Day is Too Long”, Les Subsistances, Lyon
“Who’s Afraid of Representation”, Hebbel theater, Berlin
2003 “Looking for a Missing Employee”, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
“Bir-Rooh Bid-Dam”, short film
"Limp Bodies", Tannzquartier Wien, Denkmal project
2002 “Biokhraphia” with Lina Saneh, Ashkal Alwan production
2001 “Face A / Face B”, Short Film
2000 “Red Dead Zone” with Feyrouz Serhal, Ashkal Alwan production
“Three Posters”, with Elias Khoury, Festival Ayloul production
1998 “Come in Sir we are Waiting for you Outside” with Tony Chakar
1997 “Extension 19”, Festival Ayloul production
1995 “La Prison de Sable”