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Zaffé

You’re invited to a Middle Eastern wedding party like no other.

$30.00 - $44.00
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Two people seated at a banquet table, with a third person standing between them. Each person faces a different direction. The table is set with burning candles, empty bottles, wilting flowers, and Arabic-language place cards.
A person in a white dress with long dark hair is seated at a banquet table. Their arm rests on the table, and their face is turned away from the viewer. The table is laid with yellow fabric, wilted flowers, low-burning candles, and rose petals.
A white wedding cake topped with dying flowers, two champagne flutes, and a knife. The bridal figures on the cake have their backs to the viewer. Everything is showered with an explosion of ash.

Image Credit: Ayman Kaake

Two people seated at a banquet table, with a third person standing between them. Each person faces a different direction. The table is set with burning candles, empty bottles, wilting flowers, and Arabic-language place cards.
A person in a white dress with long dark hair is seated at a banquet table. Their arm rests on the table, and their face is turned away from the viewer. The table is laid with yellow fabric, wilted flowers, low-burning candles, and rose petals.
A white wedding cake topped with dying flowers, two champagne flutes, and a knife. The bridal figures on the cake have their backs to the viewer. Everything is showered with an explosion of ash.

  • Created by: Stéphanie Ghajar & Collaborators

  • Set design: Ayman Kaake & Lara Week

  • Produced by: Stéphanie Ghajar & Lara Week

here’s to the ways we scrape together a party
from shredded streamers
and shattered furniture
the ways we turn bomb shelters
into dance floors
and disappointments
into a future

Step through a portal into an abandoned building in Beirut. Tangled knots of power cables and battery-operated candles mark your path. Fluorescent flowers bloom in the dust. There is dancing, singing, ululation, wedding games, gossip, and long-distance video calls, but something is missing.

Featuring Arabic-language covers of pop songs, underground techno music, and the beautiful melodies we know from home, 'Zaffé' is an open-hearted celebration hosted by young artists from the Middle Eastern diaspora.

How does this generation attempt to commemorate what is lost through migration and the passing of time? Together, we will throw a party: to create in the face of loss, root ourselves in history, express our resilience, provide for one another, and help each other heal.

This project is currently raising funds through the Australian Cultural Fund. Read more and support them here!

This project received Cash to Create through the Fringe Fund, with thanks to the Pulse Giving Circle.
stephanieghajar.com

  • Duration: 80 minutes

  • Age suitability: PG

  • Event warnings: Haze Effects, Moderate Coarse Language, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.

  • Content warnings: Death, War.

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  • Malthouse Theatre - The Tower
    113 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, 3006

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  • Full: $44.00

  • Preview: $30.00

  • Extra Applause: $64.00

  • Blak Tix: $15.00

  • Concession: $34.00

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Thursday, 05 October 2023

8:15pm

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Friday, 06 October 2023

8:15pm

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Saturday, 07 October 2023

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Sunday, 08 October 2023

6:30pm

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Thursday, 12 October 2023

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Friday, 13 October 2023

8:15pm

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Saturday, 14 October 2023

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Sunday, 15 October 2023

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