The final night stars and the credits song won me! I felt the romance of the couple and the sensitive nature of the two: simple, educated, and in love with their country and landscape. The weaving of poetry, memory, animation and theatre distanced me as well as constructed me as spectator of the play. I was always reminded that I was the spectator with priviledge to a slice, like a memory through story of a life with letters and love. Also, the theatre set conatructed for me, the experience that remembering Lebanon before civil war for a couple was romantic, cheap, social and fun! The war reminded us of the meaninglessness and loss of lives, the disruption of lives chaotic and intimate. The flag figure, the 1950s-60s theatrical fashion; a female dressed like masquerade or at a costume ball open and welcoming to Alice in her as emerald cedar-coloured dress symbolic of the cedar tree "the roots" of Lebanon was playful and revealed also the issues within society:all players in the war demanding acknowledgement as Lebanese/Lebanon! Her appearance as friendly and then as pushed and manipulated symbolised without gore the hidden issues the country was facing after 1975.
Review of Skies of Lebanon
