Director Nawar Bulbul and actors prepare for his third theatrical project ‘Love Boat.’

After “Shakespeare in Zaatari” in 2014 and “Romeo and Juliet between Homs and Amman” in 2015, director Nawar Bulbul is preparing his third theatrical project working with Syrian refugees in Jordan.

In “Love Boat,” a witty wind will take you to the heart of the dreadful crossings of the Mediterranean, the last hope of freedom for tens of thousands of Syrians. This tragic comedy draws the life course of a Syrian theater troupe aboard on a modular “boat-scene” adaptable to its different destinations.

In 2015, the members of the Syrian theater company, that has been disjointed/dismembered just as Syrian society for the past five years, has decided to reunite somewhere along the Mediterranean coast. An actress, 4 actors and a child gather around a boat that will take them to the gates of Europe, where they imagine themselves being able to resume their theatrical activities and thus recover a dignified life.

This play tells the story of their reunion and their experiences through representative sequences from classical European literature. Aboard an amazing boat, actors have brought with them their costumes, their accessories and they are ready to play the shows they performed in the past.

The play aims to promote the integration of refugees, war-wounded and former prisoners into society through “drama therapy”, to highlight the main causes and reasons for the current influx of refugees to Europe and to open the debate on how to stop people from engaging in perilous crossings in unsafe conditions.

Bulbul has launched a crowdfunding campaign for the project on ULULE. “The donations will enable us to give the refugee actors and volunteers a financial compensation for their work and personal investment in the project, remunerate the brilliant Jordanian-Syrian violinist, who will join the group in the live performances and to acquire costumes and other materials required for the scenes,” the website says.

Bulbul is a Franco-Syrian director, graduated from the Institute of Dramatic Art/Theatre in Damascus (Syria). As an artist engaged in society and people he has dedicated his last two theater plays to Syrian refugees and /or in exile.

With this new project, he wishes to continue offering these human experiences to those who need it the most; the opportunity to express themselves vocally and gestural and challenge their disabilities in daily life. Just as the setting-ups of 2014 and 2015, this project was designed to show the physical and moral violence of war to a greater public. In his capacity as a director, Bulbul’s fight against tyranny goes through art.

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