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SABAB Theatre is an independent, international touring theatre company, co-founded by Georgina Van Welie and Kuwaiti writer/director Sulayman Al Bassam.
Working internationally across national and cultural boundaries, SABAB uses theatre to engage with issues of identity, history, language and culture.
Sabab's work aims to establish new spaces of action and reflection inside the contemporary Arab world and beyond it.
Working with an ensemble of pan Arab and international actors, musicians and designers, SABAB’s productions are characterised by a radical approach to text, bold production styles and playful, provocative combinations of content and form.
The company has achieved worldwide acclaim and recognition for its productions, performing to audiences across four continents. Recent work includes: The Speaker’s Progress; Richard III: An Arab Tragedy, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for the Complete Works Festival; The Mirror for Princes / Kalila wa Dimna co-produced by the Tokyo International Arts Festival, Barbican bite06 and Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah, Kuwait; and The Al-Hamlet Summit, co-produced by the Tokyo International Arts Festival.
THE TEAM
Sulayman Al Bassam, Writer/Director
Georgina Van Welie, Artistic Producer
Abdullah Al Awadhi, Costume Design
Nigel Barrett, Assistant Director
Sam Collins, Production Design
Marcus Doshi, Lighting Design
Lewis Gibson, Composer/Sound Design/
Aude Albiges, Production Manager,
Wafa’a Al FraheenSurtitles, Director/Company Manager,
Faisal Al Obaid, Touring Stage Manage
Saad Samir, Technical Director
Core Acting Company
Faisal Al Ameeri, Carole Abboud, Monadhil Daood, Nicolas Daniel, Fayez Kazak, Jassim Al Nabhan, Amal Omran.
USA Box KWI 5770,
147-29 182nd Street,
Springfield Gardens,
New York NY11413
USA
http://www.sabab.org/about-al-bassam-theatre/
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.