The Iosif Vulcan troupe of the Regina Maria Theater is preparing for the premiere of the show "Elif and the Rain" by Sami Ibrahim, directed by Alex Ian\u0103\u0219i, scheduled for December 21 and 22, from 7:00 PM, at the Transilvania Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sami Ibrahim is a young London writer with a rising career, having already been nominated for Awards<\/em> Olivier<\/em> and receiving an award for political theater in 2019. Sami Ibrahim addresses themes in his texts that raise questions about pressing contemporary socio-political issues, questioning the social system that we have created and which sometimes turns against us, especially when we encounter Other<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n In "Elif and the Rain" Sami Ibrahim moves away from the rigorous structures of realism and uses the stylistics of the fable to talk about migration, about the difficulty of immigrants to integrate into a society where economic dictatorship rules and where the flawed system denies the right to be treated as a human being to those who come from outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elif is an immigrant who flees her country at a young age because of the dictatorship, hoping to find a place where she can regain her right to exist. But the mirage of freedom gradually turns into a struggle for validation, and she discovers how fragile the border between freedom and oppression is. The balance tilts from political to economic dictatorship, and in her fight for survival she is gradually swallowed up by a truly Kafkaesque immigration system. Fragile rescue lies in the power of stories, like Scheherazade, but harsh reality permeates her story, especially when she is put in the position of protecting her daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The show's director, Alex Ian\u0103\u0219i, is young and passionate, with clearly defined aesthetic convictions, who declares: "...I try to do my best to create useful theater. A theater that is not an artistic exercise, art for art's sake, an escape from reality. But precisely, a theater that forces us to be present in reality. A theater that opens the viewer's eyes, that makes them wonder and be horrified by the reality we live in. A theater that challenges the viewer to understand the contradictions of our society, so that they then feel obligated to transform it."<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n