A Season with Wajdi Mouawad - A shell in the heart

1095 Route de la Diege 12260 Salles-Courbatiès

Wahab is angry. Urgently summoned, he goes to the hospital where his mother is dying. During this winter journey, in the middle of a snowstorm, he faces his thoughts, memories, the trauma of a bloody attack. His mother will die, and Wahab thinks maybe he will finally be able to grow up and live. Against her, against the bus driver, against himself, he expresses a accumulated rage. His childhood, marked by the war in Lebanon, resurfaces. Before his mother, after this crossing, the angry kid becomes a man. This monologue, performed by Jean Destrem, explores the complex relationship e…