Playwright Rawya El Chab, 2025,
at the Brick Theater.
Crossing the Water
by Rawya El Chab
December 5-21*, 2025
at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave
Tickets $25-50
Running time: 70 minutes
Director & Dramaturg: Jesse Freedman
Playwright, Producer & Storyteller: Rawya El Chab
Dramaturg: Mona Merhi
Sound & Music Composition: Omar Dewachi
Projection, Set & Object Design: Ettie Pin
Lighting Design: Jacqueline Scaletta
Costume & Wearables Design: Katie Friedman
Production Director / Theater Manager: Tommy Lynch
Stage Manager: Kyle Quick
Graphic Design: Carine Zahabi
Crossing the Water is a chronicle of life under military occupation, told through a powerful blend of live storytelling, shadow play, projections, and puppetry. This solo performance interlaces personal memory with historical events, following the journey of a small family and their comrades as they flee the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. At once intimate and political, this autobiography reflects on survival, resistance, and the weight of memory. Crossing the Water is the second installment in a trilogy exploring the decline of the Lebanese left at the end of the twentieth century.
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