The Dammam Society for Culture and Arts hosted on Tuesday the theatrical performance 'Talk So I Can See You,' produced by the Proscenium Theater Troupe, written and directed by Dr. Yusuf Ahmed Al-Harbi, starring Mohammed Al-Mutawa, Susan Al-Idrisi, Jawad Al-Sayegh, Mahdi Al-Marhoun, Mohammed Al-Marzouq, and Hawra Al-Hazim, with music and sound effects by Abdulaziz Al-Aswad, before its departure to Germany. The performance was selected to participate in the World Theater Festival in Chemnitz, Germany, next week, among a selection of world-class shows, making it the only work representing the Gulf states and the Arab world, and representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in this international forum.

Notably, the play participated in the Ithra Festival and won three awards: Best Integrated Performance, Best Text Preparation, and Best Lead Actress. It also participated in the Riyadh Theater Festival and won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

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The play's participation continues regionally and internationally, as it will take part in the Zarqa Summer Theater Festival in September, and in the Different Spaces Festival in the Arab Republic of Egypt in November, along with other future participations that reflect the growing presence of the work on the theater scene.

From Dammam to the World: Play 'Talk So I Can See You' to the World Theater Festival in Germany

Story of the Play

In a mysterious space resembling a train track or a desolate forest, a number of blind people live in a state of confusion, unaware of their location, relying on guesses and sounds to understand the world around them. A person named 'The Blind Train' appears to them, presenting himself as a guide to survival, so they follow him driven by hope. However, their journey ends in a tragic fate when they discover that the one they thought was a guide was only the cause of their destruction. In a harsh moment of revelation, the truth becomes clear: they were looking for a savior... but they found no one.

From Dammam to the World: Play 'Talk So I Can See You' to the World Theater Festival in Germany

An Experience Beyond Reality

The play 'Talk So I Can See You' belongs to the boundaries of intersection between symbolic theater and absurd theater, as it is built on a semantic structure that employs symbols to reveal inner and existential worlds, borrowing from the absurd its structure based on fragmentation, repetition of dialogues, and a sense of futility. Thus, it can be described as a work with a symbolic character grounded in the absurd, where existential questions intersect with semantic ambiguity, in a theatrical experience that transcends direct reality towards deeper reflections on the meaning of presence and absence, sight and insight. At the level of directorial treatment, the performance adopts an abstract visual approach, relying on the condensation of theatrical image and economy of realistic elements, through the use of lighting, sound, and body movement, enhancing the symbolic dimension and establishing the absurd sense of time and place.