A Memory For Forgetfulness

A theater adaptation of the prose poem by Mahmoud Darwish

“A Memory for Forgetfulness” records a single day of Darwish’s life in Beirut, during the Israeli invasion of 1982. “A Memory for Forgetfulness” is an active act of remembering against the forgetfulness of a deceiving history; where the attempt to survive the ruthless insanity of war by not suspending the quotidian, and carrying on daily routines like making morning coffee or simply walking on the street, becomes a heroic act. 

The play was performed in German by three actors from Krefeld and Monchengladbach City Theaters’ ensemble and ran between September 2013 and February 2015 in both theaters in Germany.