Vilnius University Culture Center has been organizing the "Storytelling Salon" for five years in order to popularize the tradition of live storytelling. This year, the Lebanese storyteller Raffi Fehgali, who is visiting Lithuania will hold one of its most impressive performances called "Anatomy of a Home". The storytelling performance is held on the 23rd of March, 6 P.M., at Vilnius University Theatre Hall.
Entrance is free for Vilnius university students and employees, yet it is necessary to register HERE and have a document (either a student card, or employee card).
The show is about home; chosen, forced, in between, both, or other. We are born in a home, if we’re one of the lucky ones. Then we grow, explore, and choose it as our home, or choose another. Many of us, much more than we think or like to believe, have other homes forced on them, in very obvious ways. Some of them learn to love their new homes, and yet others live between the two. How else is our relationship with our home(s)? There’s a whole world of homes out there.
Storytelling performance “Anatomy of a Home” wil be held in English.
Raffi Feghali is a theater maker, peacebuilder, and trainer based between Amsterdam and Beirut.
He‘s directed more than 35 Theatre of the Oppressed, improvisational theatre, and other performances since 2009. Most recently, he directed the devised piece We Are the Ones Who Live Here (2022, Lebanon) and Standing on the Miraculous Field (2023, Netherlands).
As a performer he has performed in more than 60 shows worldwide, under many international directors. Raffi is one of the people who brought improv to Lebanon in 2009 and he has recently embarked on a journey taking him back to his storytelling roots. Halim Al-Hakawati, the solo improv show directed by Stephen Kearin he’s touring with now, resulted from this blend. He is a usual host of storytelling night at the Mezrab in Amsterdam. He launched his first autobiographical monodrama, Peer Gynt of Bourj Hammoud, in 2018. More recently, he’s been in Interview the Dead directed by Bryan Reynolds. Anatomy of a Home, his second autobiographical monodrama premiered at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in 2022 and it has been touring since.