A reading of the theatrical text “Tamas” at the Palestinian Writers and Journalists Union

The Theater and Music Association of the Palestinian Writers and Journalists Union held a reading session for the theatrical text entitled “Tamas” written by Muhammad Samir Tahan, as part of the “Creative and Critic” seminar series at the union’s headquarters.

The theatrical text presented the story of a girl and a man who were brought together by an emergency circumstance in one of the areas of contact during wartime.

Regarding the text, the critic Ahmed Hilal said in his intervention that followed the reading: The added value provided by the text is the views of its protagonists on several issues in life, without conveying the writer’s direct opinion. It also shed light on the inner world of women, and the opportunity for her to speak from two positions: strength and weakness, summing up what women suffered as a result of the war.

For his part, the writer and critic Samer Mansour saw that the writer Tahan presented in his text an eloquent example of the title’s relationship to the text, as it presented a connection between two strangers in addition to the physical contact, then the moral.

The writer and critic Omar Ayoub, Rapporteur of the Theater and Music Association in the Union, noted that “Tamas” is the place of the struggle between good and evil and the ingenuity of the conclusion, by keeping the door open at the end for the recipient to put the aesthetics of what he sees. He indicated that Tamas writer chose a very short time in a simple place, within an exceptional circumstance, to convey many great details from the worlds of love and war.

It is noteworthy that the text “Tamas” won first place in the theatrical text competition for adults in 2021, which is held by the Directorate of Theaters and Music at the Ministry of Culture.

Inas Abdulkareem