Wajdi Mouawad. Play + Masterclass / Show + Masterclass

On Saturday, October 4, the Lebanese actor Wajdi Mouawad premiered the stage of the theater of the Museo Universidad de Navarra with a masterclass for a small group of people and students. The event was completed with a theatrical performance of the play "Seuls" in the afternoon at the Teatro Principal of Vitoria. Wajdi Mouawad is a Canadian actor, theater director and writer. Because of the civil conflicts in Libya during the 1970s, his family had to flee to Paris and then settle permanently in Quebec. This exile has deeply marked his artistic work. During the masterclass, his first in Spain, Wajdi Mouawad explained his method of creation and the constant struggle against reason to give free rein to improvisation and creativity. In 2009, he was the associate artist of the Avignon Festival and received the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française for his body of work.

Seuls Show: Harwan, a Montreal student in his thirties, about to present his doctoral thesis, finds himself, after a series of banal events, locked up for a whole night in one of the rooms of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

The night will be long. It will last more than two thousand years and will drag him, without a second's hesitation, to the cradle of his mother tongue, long since forgotten beneath the deepest layers of all that is manifold in him. "My name is Harwan."

Wajdi Mouawad Beirut (Lebanon, October 16, 1968) is a Canadian writer, actor and theater director. His parents fled Lebanon to Paris, France, in 1977. In 1983, they settled in Quebec. He graduated in 1991 from the National Theatre School of Canada. From 2000 to 2004, he directed the Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal and in 2005, he founded the creative companies "Au carré de l'hypoténuse" in France and "Abé carré cé carré" in Montreal with Emmanuel Schwartz.

In 2009, he was the associate artist of the Avignon Festival and received the Grand Prix du théâtre de l'Académie française for his entire body of work.