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Art Alert: Fabrica to perform Les Miserables at El-Sawy Culturewheel The arts initiative Fabrica will perform highlights from musical in an Egyptian accent
The musical theatre troupe of the art initiative Fabrica will perform highlights from Les Miserables in Arabic with an Egyptian dialect at El-Sawy Culturewheel on Sunday 23 February. Fabrica seeks invigorate the performance arts scene in Egypt, with a focus on musical theatre. Led by renowned soprano singer Nevine Allouba, the group tackles Egyptian theatre and translates classic Western works into colloquial Arabic, reinventing well-known stage productions and bringing them to Egyptian audiences with a different flavour. Fabrica recently toured the United States with their performance of Les Miserables — the world-famous musical based on Victor Hugo's French novel of the same name — in Arabic with an Egyptian dialect. The tour, which spanned Boston, Washington, DC and New York, was sponsored by non-profit organisations Izdahar and Meridian International, as well as the US embassy in Cairo, in an effort to foster cross-cultural collaboration and emerging arts in Egypt. An online crowd-funding campaign also helped fund the tour. Programme: Sunday, 23 February, at 8pm River Hall, Wisdom Hall, El-Sawy Culturewheel 26 July Street, under 15 May Bridge, Zamalek, Cairo http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/94460.aspx
