UNDER A LOW SKY is a succession of unusual, unexpected, familiar or impossible meetings, both a long narrative and a fragmented text. Like puzzle parts, memories try to bring back personal stories and what was Syria. Like puzzle parts, memories try to bring back personal stories and what Syria used to be. Two men – director and author Wael Ali and video maker Jamal – undergo travel in time way back to the colonial archive to catch this same territory at the moment of its evolution towards a state.
How to cope with today if yesterday is gone? How to do theatre in a period of war when we are out of the country? What is the context of the theatre we create, and who do we create for? The show mixes two types of writing, intimate and political, questioning their limits. It also creates a dialog between different temporalities and several ways of looking at the same object, the same territory in escape.
The performance will be presented on the 27th September 2019, at 20h in the Chamber hall of Drama Theatre Plovdiv. More about the show you can find http://onedanceweek.com/program/#6844. Online tickets https://epaygo.bg/4122639380
The performance will be in French and Arabic with Bulgarian subtitles.

WAEL ALI
Writer and director Wael Ali was born in 1979. He graduated from the Higher Institute for Performing Arts of Damascus in 2004, and continued his studies in Lyon, France, where he graduated from University Lumière Lyon with a Master of Performing Arts.
Between 2003 and 2006, Wael Ali has been involved in several projects as a dramaturge, including an interactive theatre project in Syria where he was organizing trainings. In 2014, he wrote and directed the show ‘Je ne me souviens plus’ presented in Shams Theatre in Beirut, Lebanon, and in several places and festivals, such as Gorki Theatre in Berlin, Toneelhuis in Antwerp (Belgium), Théâtrales de Carthage, Tunis and more. In 2016, he directed ‘Titre Provisoire’ with a text written in collaboration with Lebanese Actress Chrystèle Khodr.
Director/ Author: Wael Ali
Light: Hassan AlBalkhi 
Music: Khaled Yassine
Scenography: Bissane Al Charif
Technical Direction: Camille Mauplot

Source: https://plovdiv2019.eu