Interview the Dead

Is there a person from history you are dying to meet? This is your chance. Interview the Dead provides audiences with a menu of famous and notorious dead people from which each individual can chose for a 10-minute one-on-one conversation in English, Arabic, or French. An actor who has studied the person in depth will channel the spirit of the dead, will become that person, answer all your questions, and share with you his or her motivations, passions, and secrets. This is a completely unique interactive theater experience. By intimately exploring humanity’s past, Interview the Dead celebrates our future.

More about the show…

  • A man with a beard and long hair tied back, sitting on a carved wooden chair, pointing to the left. He is wearing a gray button-up shirt and black pants, with his left leg crossed over his right. There is a table and a decorative lamp behind him, and an abstract colorful painting on the wall to his left.

    The Team.

    Interview the Dead is Transversal Theater production based on the real life biographies, stories, and other documentation of the characters portrayed in the performance.

    Directed by Bryan Reynolds
    Performed by Raffi Feghali and Ghina Daou
    Production Manager Jesus Lopez

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  • Woman with curly hair wearing a yellow dress and black blazer, sitting on a wooden chair, gesturing with her right hand, in a room with a lamp and wooden furniture.

    The Show.

    The premier of Interview the Dead was in an apartment in the heart of Beirut’s Hamra area before it launched on its tour. The characters portrayed then and so far are: Omar Sharif,
    Sabah, Che Guevara, Dalida, Mahatma Gandhi, Nawal El Saadawi, Gibran Khalil Gibran, May Ziadeh, Frida Kahlo, and Saddam Hussein.

    After is opening in Beirut, Lebanon the show has played at: the American University of Beirut (AUB), Eugène Millon Theatre, Paris - France, and Mezrab, Amsterdam - Netherlands.

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