With Le Dernier Cèdre du Liban, playwright Aïda Asgharzadeh proposes a theatrical narrative at the crossroads of family drama, female portraiture and journalistic memoir. Scheduled at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre from September 18, 2025, the play features Eva, a lively, angry teenager, boarding at a Centre d'Éducation Fermé in south-west France, suddenly confronted with a past she knows nothing about.
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Abandoned at birth, Eva learns during an unexpected meeting at a notary's office that she is the heiress of her late mother, Anna Duval, a war reporter. Her legacy: a dictaphone and dozens of microcassettes, evidence of a life spent documenting the great geopolitical upheavals of the late 20th century. From the war in Lebanon to Arafat's speech at the UN, via the fall of the Berlin Wall, these sound archives would become for Eva as many fragments of memory as milestones for reconstructing her own history.
The staging, built around an intimate narrative device, would give pride of place to listening, storytelling and the embodiment of a heritage that is as much political as it is personal. The figure of Eva, played by Magali Genoud, would dialogue with the voices of the past, notably those of Maëlis Adalle and Azeddine Benamara, to bring out the memory of an absent mother and a world at war.
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The show, lasting 1 hour 15 minutes, would be a tightly-packed yet tension-filled affair, between introspection and collective resonance. The central metaphor would be the Cedars of God forest in Lebanon: a thousand-year-old tree struck by lightning, bearing an intact fruit, like a precious legacy despite the wounds.
Le Dernier Cèdre du Liban is likely to appeal to an audience sensitive to stories of filiation, crossed memories, and contemporary plays with a political and poetic dimension. It will also appeal to those interested in the issues of transmission, fragmented identities, and the power of the spoken word as a means of linking generations.
On the other hand, audiences looking for spectacular action or light comedy may be less receptive to this theater of storytelling, centered on listening, voice and memory.
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Dates and Opening Time
On September 18, 2025
Prices
€19 - €42
Booking
www.theatredeloeuvre.com
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