Theatre

A play first published in the weekly cultural supplement of Syria’s Al-Thawra newspaper in Syria in 1997. It is about a master who gets others to play a certain game with rules he has made and continually changes so he remains the only winner. It is a play about law, tyranny, love and sacrifice. Performed at the Kharafi Festival in Kuwait in 2009.
Translated into English with an excerpt published on this site
 
A one-act play about loneliness, jealousy, fear and human greed. Its heroine is a woman whose husband has taken a second wife. She tries to make him stay with her, revealing her humiliation, pain and jealousy.
 
A one-act play where an encounter takes place between a man and a woman who had been in love many years before but the woman deserted him to marry his wealthy friend. Both plays The First Wife’s Night and The Piano were first presented in one show in Aleppo in 1999

 

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