English ''Between Me and Me, There Was She'', ''Bayna Ana Wa Ana Hya'', ( ar, بين أنا وأنا هي ) is a play written and directed by

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. This experimental play denounces

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Performances

''Bayn Ana Wa Ana Hya'' was prepared in

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by the “Laboratory of Dramaturgy, Acting And Texts”, and performed for the first time in Taher Alhaddad Center in Tunisia followed by two other performances (2005). It has also been performed in the

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(2006) where Saleh Ghabech, the head of the family center in Sharja at the time, considered the play to have a profound effect. Later that year (2006) it was performed in

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, Spain where it was received with a

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, and has been the only Arab play (up till then) to be translated and published in “Assaig de Teater” (nْ 57-58). For Women's day 2007, performances were held in Italy, one of them in the closure of a congress on women's rights. The latest performance was held in

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as part of the Professional Theater Festival in 2010. ''Bayna Ana Wa Ana Hya'' was also performed in Lebanon on several occasions and for a variety of groups.

Publications and translations

''Bayna Ana Wa Ana Hya'' was published in Arabic in 2005. A

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translation of the play took place in 2007 in "Assaig de Teater".Ragué-Àrias, Maria Josep. "Entre jo i jo, ella." Assaig de teatre: revista de l'Associació d'Investigació i Experimentació Teatral 57 (2007): 175-177. Unpublished translations of the text into Italian, English and French were made for performance purposes.

Translated titles

* ca, Entre jo i jo, ella *french: Elle, entre moi et moi

References

External links

''Bayna Ana Wa Ana Hya'' home page
Arabic-language plays 2005 plays Lebanese plays