Crossing the Water

Directed by Jesse Freedman
Set & projection design by Ettie Pin
Light design by Jacqueline Scaletta
Sound design & music composition by Omar Dewachi

Crossing the Water is a chronicle of life under military occupation, told through a powerful blend of live storytelling, shadow play, projections, and puppetry. This solo performance interlaces personal memory with historical events, following the journey of a small family and their comrades as they flee the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. At once intimate and political, this autobiography reflects on survival, resistance, and the weight of memory. Crossing the Water is the second installment in a trilogy exploring the decline of the Lebanese left at the end of the twentieth century.

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