{"id":387519,"date":"2025-05-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=387519"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:11:12","slug":"play-in-rio-revives-memories-of-lebanese-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/play-in-rio-revives-memories-of-lebanese-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Play in Rio revives memories of Lebanese immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The memories of Samir Mourad\u2019s father are the starting point for the play <em>O cachorro que se recusou a morrer<\/em> [The Dog That Refused to Die], in which he portrays Arab culture, traditions, and the experiences of his Lebanese grandfather in parallel with Brazil\u2019s own history. The play will have four performances at the Glauce Rocha Theater, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, from June 26 to 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a press release for the show, the play addresses the challenges of a Lebanese immigrant in Brazil, including work as a peddler, an arranged marriage, and personal conflicts. Aspects of Arab culture are explored in the set design alongside the story of Samir Mourad\u2019s relatives, who were able to reconstruct the family\u2019s memory through recorded testimonials from family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to present this story because I believe it fulfills the essential role of theater: to move and provoke a reflection on the human condition,\u201d says the artist, who is the author, actor, and co-director of the show alongside Delson Antunes. The performances will conclude the exhibition <em>Teatro, Mito e Genealogia<\/em> [Theater, Myth, and Genealogy] by Mourad himself. The play has already had other runs in 2023 and 2024 across the state of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quick facts<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cO cachorro que se recusou a morrer\u201d<br>June 26 to 29<br>Teatro Glauce Rocha, Av. Rio Branco, 179, Rio de Janeiro, Braizl<br>60 minutes | 14 years | Tickets: R$ 40.00 and R$ 20.00 (half-price) \u2013 available on <a href=\"http:\/\/ou%20bilheteria%20do%20teatro.%20https\/www.sympla.com.br\/evento\/o-cachorro-que-se-recusou-a-morrer\/2948479\">Sympla&nbsp;<\/a>at the box office.<br>For more information: 21 22200259<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-388473\">Supplied<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, actor, and co-director Samir Mourad draws inspiration from his family\u2019s stories to stage \u201cThe Dog Who Refused to Die\u201d in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":388473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[9534,2268,11479,27568,53175],"class_list":{"0":"post-387519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-brazil-en","9":"tag-lebanese","10":"tag-play","11":"tag-rio-de-janeiro-en-2","12":"tag-samir-mourad-4"},"wps_subtitle":"Author, actor, and co-director Samir Mourad draws inspiration from his family\u2019s stories to stage \u201cThe Dog Who Refused to Die\u201d in Rio de Janeiro.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}