I accommodate material beauty to serve the ends, the essence of the work, or meanings I wish to convey. And there is truthfulness, which I uphold absolutely. Truthfulness means to strip off your skin and to offer your living flesh to your audience, who comes to your theatre for a feast of communal celebration. It is the contrary of a consumerist theatre, where emptiness and the void are embellished by splendid decoration. She loves street theatre and open spaces, unbound and imposing no limits.
People contact one another using advanced technology, but fail to communicate.
The storyteller has been cruelly banished, to be replaced by television. I work on the actor's body to produce the expression sought, a technique that is not common in Arab theatre. I use Western techniques, but my spirit is purely Arab. Words follow the whims of the flesh. What we lack in Arab theatre is the element of surprise.