Performances
An adaptation made in 2005. On tour in mai 2007 in the main theatres in The Netherlands. A performance about violence without violence on stage. Musik and storytelling melt with dance and images. A production of d'Electrique.
Performing with the band The Ex.
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel ueber Berlin) is an adaptation of Wim Wenders monumental film. Mafaalani iniciated for the theatreadaptation an uniek international collaboration with American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) and
Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Netherlands’ foremost theatre company. The cast of this perfromance is half Dutch and half American. The
production opened in Amsterdam in early October 2006, and toured the
Netherlands and Belgium before arriving at the A.R.T. Boston in december 2006.
Verona is a city without peace where two families are fighting. The new generation took over violence. They watch with wonderment how not understanding evokes in fear. And how fear creates violence. Until Romeo falls in love with Juliet. And Juliet falls in love with Romeo. With this meeting the fight between two families becomes a fight within one family. A new challenge.
About The Merchant of Venice (De Koopman van Venetië) (2002)
In The Merchant of Venice Shakspeare shows us a society where everything is for sale. Where love and money is connected strongly, where love is a lottery, an illusion to not face reality and turns into a fairy tale. Money is the motor. Dominated by the merchant of Venice, Antonio. The outsider Shylock is his enemy. When Antonio needs money for his best friend Bassanio he has no other solution than asking his reval Shylock for it. Shylock suggests the game: If he doesn’t get the money back in time he wants one pound of meat out of the body of Antonio. What seems to be a joke becomes deadly truth. Shylock goes to court demanding his right as it is written in the contract with Antonio: One pound out of the body of Antonio.
About Othello (2002)
A main stage production that run in Cologne, Germany for more than 2 years.
About a man who killed his wife because his best friend Jago suggested he betrays him. The monster in his head drove him to kill her brutally. Shakespeare shows how manipulation works. How a civilised society changes in murder and inrigue. A masterpeace that Mafaalani staged as brutal as the play is. The German public reacted strongly and it became a public hit. This production was invited and ran in the Schauburg Wintherthur in 2004.
