Sahsah (2021)

Sahsah is a naughty and chaotic boy, intelligent, troublesome, and loves to play, he is the only son of a family consisting of two spouses, both are in their fiftes, who have a perfectly organized life. However the order is disturbed by the indifferent behavior of their son, Sahsah, who is overcome by chaos and indifference to order and arrangement. Sahsah’s life and his perceptual concepts change upside down when he secretly hears his parents before he sleeps talking about their gift to him, which is a luxurious and expensive wristwatch as a reward for his success in school. Sah-sah starts dreaming about the watch, and it is only moments until his dreams invade many forms of clocks and other characters, such as “The Morning Sun”, “The School Bell”, The Educator” “Uncle Camel”, the nanny of geography, history and plants, in addition to “Madame Fork”, his own nanny. When he wakes up from his dream, we see him as a different person than he was before. Sahsah is an educational play that revolves around the value of time and the importance of order. The home has its system, the street has its system, and the school has its system, everything is based on order and we need to respect time and order.

Written by the great Egyptian play writer: Salah Jahin

Scenography and directed by: Fouad Awad Acting, performance and activation: Rana Zaytoun. Salam hebeh, Nour Abu Hariri

Music and Composer: Moein Daniel puppet maker: Lisa Shore. Daria Peterson

Accessory maker: Tawfiq Said Decorator: Khaled Silawi. and Fouad Awad

Voice playback: Bassam Abu Ahmed

Production management: Ahmed Dokhan Produced by: Yalla Center for Culture and Arts – Nazareth, October 2021 Production Secretary: Marwa Abu Khamis
English