Annabi
(The Prophet)

Zad Moultaka puts on stage and in his music the very famous text of Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese poet in celebration with his 125 birthday. Antoine Moultaka, actor and director, at the origin of the revival of the theater in Arabic language in the sixties, is the hypnotic interpreter of this powerful and founding text.

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese painter and writer (1883-1931) is the author of the famous “Prophet”, an oriental spiritual treasure, a legacy of wisdom for humanity. Exiled very young, the author has devoted a love without limit to his country of birth . His Lebanon evolved in his imagination, built on sensory memories, transformed by exile..

“You have your Lebanon and I have my Lebanon” This sentence echoes strangely in Zad Moultaka and several artists of his generation. The composer proposes a sound work like “reconstitution of an imaginary Lebanon with sounds in” trompe-l’oreille “: urban and industrial noises to create the wind or the sea, sounds tampered with machine guns to evoke the universe of the rain, harvest, mopeds, distant conversations, the shadow of the city … In a way, the confinement of the Prophet in the heart of the modern city. For Zad Moultaka, The Prophet resonates today more than ever “like a silent scream, inciting the search for a place of inner reconciliation and love as an ultimate attempt to salvation.” A sober staging, created by acoustic and synaesthetic images, based on sound illusions, more convincing, more poetic than “true sounds” … A fresco in which the words of the Prophet and the voice of Antoine Moultaka, actor and director, are interwoven scene at the origin of the revival of the Lebanese theater in Arabic language in the sixties.