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Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons'
by Wajdi Mouawad, trans.
Shelley Tepperman
The play is set in war-torn Beirut.
A family decides to go ahead with the marriage of the only daughter,
despite the world crumbling around them, despite the mother’s unhappiness
and the father’s violence, despite the mental deficiency of the youngest
son and the absence of the oldest son, and, above all, despite the fact
that the bridegroom doesn’t exist.
“Montreal playwright Wajdi Mouawad,
who as a child experienced war in his native Lebanon, knows that in
the middle of carnage, life goes on. His audacious and bitter comedy
Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’ focuses on our desperate desire
to cling to tradition and daily ritual in the midst of chaos
– a struggle that is both heroic and ludicrous.”
—NOW Magazine
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