Albers on Bellan, ‘Dismember Remember: Das anatomische Theater von Lina Saneh und Rabih Mroué’
Audio: Ok… But what are you guys trying to do with theatre?
Artist: We’re doing theatre.
Audio: You mean these performances you’ve been presenting this last while, you consider them theatre?
Artist: I would prefer to delay my answer for the simple reason that I don’t want to be accused of preempting criticism and blocking it.
[…]
Audio: So, why aren’t you acting…really acting?
Artist: Honestly, I’m getting offered a lot of roles…but I’m not interested in any of them.
[…]
Audio: Ok. Ok. If there aren’t any directors to your liking… Your husband…why doesn’t he produce anything for you?
Artist: He doesn’t feel like it.
Audio: Speak into the microphone.
Artist: He doesn’t feel like it.[1]
This short extract from Biokhraphia, a theater performance mocking the genre of the artist’s interview while negotiating the state of theater in Lebanon today, allows a telling glimpse into the highly conceptual, albeit provocative, (auto)critical, and nevertheless savvy theater of Lebanese artists Lina Saneh (b. 1966) and Rabih Mroué (b. 1967).