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El-Warsha is the first independent troupe in the free theatre movement in Egypt. They started in 1987 by re-examining the western heritage of the Egyptian Theater through adopting a number of European plays with growing freedom.
El-Warsha has toured the Arab World since 1990. It has developed activities linking art, learning and holistic development and has sought to create an Arab network to cater for the need of independent companies.
El-Warsha started its activities in September 1987 with two plays, Peter Handke's The Ward Wishes to Become a Guardian and Waking Up by Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These were performed again in early 1988 and then at the first Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre later that year. In March 1988, El-Warsha produced two plays by Pinter: The Lover and The Dumb Waiter then produced its adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Penal Colony at the Second Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre in 1989.
17, Sherif St,
Downtown.
Cairo
Egypt
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Here are few videos reflect some of their work.