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News & ArtsWednesday, January 18, 2012
Theater "I Only Want to Provoke Myself"
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Lebanon is not the easiest place in the world for an artist to express a difficult truth—or even ask a prickly question. The national government routinely censors any criticism of its past or its policies, but that doesn't stop Beirut-based performer Rabih Mroué. As he explained in a telephone interview last week, if he officially applied to the government to perform his tech-heavy, research-based performances, they would be banned. "So," he said with a casual shrug in his voice, "I perform them illegally."
Publicly exploring controversial ideas runs in Mroué's family. His grandfather, the Arab-Marxist philosopher Hussein Mroué, was assassinated in 1987 for his writing.
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