All Blood Runs Red: Rehearsal Images Released
3rd February 2025
Hotel Methuselah has been named as one of the theatrical highlights of 2012 in Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper:
Film noir met live performance at Dawar al-SHAMS earlier this year, when British theater company Imitating the Dog were invited to perform in Beirut as part of the Samir Kassir Spring Festival. Without a doubt this year’s most innovative performance, “Hotel Methuselah” is set in a nameless, war-torn country in 1940s Europe. Close-ups of the actors faces were captured in beautifully rendered film sequences, while their bodies, visible through a letter box-shaped slit at the front of the stage, moved in perfect synch with the pre-recorded film and dialogue. This eerie performance – part horror film, part exploration of the psychological ramifications of war – worked particularly well in Lebanon, where for many viewers war has been a lived reality, rather than something that happened to their grandparents.
3rd February 2025
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