Incendies (play)

Incendies
Incendies
	Nawal's mother in a 2012 performance at the Lise-Guèvremont theatre, Montreal
Written by	Wajdi Mouawad
Characters	Simon Marwan; Jeanne Marwan; Nawal Marwan
Date premiered	2003
Original language	French
Genre	Tragedy

Incendies is a 2003 play by Wajdi Mouawad.^[4] The play was translated into English as Scorched by Linda Gaboriau and was published in 2005 by Playwrights Canada Press.

The play was based on parts of the life of the Lebanese communist militant Soha Bechara.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] Charlotte Facet notes that Mouawad met with Bechara before writing the play, but adds that some of the material is adapted from Randa Chahal Sabag's film work on and with Bechara,^[9] while noting that many of the characteristics of Bechara are divided among the main characters including Jeanne and Simon, rather than Nawal alone.^[10]

It was the second part of a thematically-related, but not strictly sequential, trilogy of plays about characters of Middle Eastern origins confronting family secrets, preceded by Tideline (Littoral) and followed by Forests (Forêts).^[11]

^ Viriasova, Inna; Calcagno, Antonio (25 June 2018). Roberto Esposito. p. 219. ISBN 9781438470368.
^ Carroll, Noël; Gibson, John (2011). Narrative, Emotion, and Insight. p. 155. ISBN 9780271048574.
^ Lipscomb, Antonella; Losada, José Manuel (6 November 2017). Myth and Emotions. p. 326. ISBN 9781527505094.
^ Mouawad, Wajdi (2005). Scorched (9780887547607): Wajdi Mouawad: Books. ISBN 0887547605.
^ Holstun, Jim (Fall 2015). "Antigone Becomes Jocasta: Soha Bechara, Résistante, and Incendies". Mediations vol. 29, no. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
^ "Seeing yourself re-made as fiction".
^ "Lebanese civil war explodes screen Incendies". 24 May 2011.
^ "Incendies". Archived from the original on 2011-11-29. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
^ Mouawad, Wajdi (2018). Incendies. Montreal: Leméac. p. 145. ISBN 978-2-7609-36188.
^ Mouawad, Wajdi (2018). Incendies. Montreal: Leméac. p. 146. ISBN 978-2-7609-36188.
^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Mouawad fails, but in an interesting way". The Globe and Mail, July 20, 2009.

[1] Viriasova, Inna; Calcagno, Antonio (25 June 2018). Roberto Esposito. p. 219. ISBN 9781438470368.

[2] Carroll, Noël; Gibson, John (2011). Narrative, Emotion, and Insight. p. 155. ISBN 9780271048574.

[3] Lipscomb, Antonella; Losada, José Manuel (6 November 2017). Myth and Emotions. p. 326. ISBN 9781527505094.

[amazon1-4] Mouawad, Wajdi (2005). Scorched (9780887547607): Wajdi Mouawad: Books. ISBN 0887547605.

[Holstun-5] Holstun, Jim (Fall 2015). "Antigone Becomes Jocasta: Soha Bechara, Résistante, and Incendies". Mediations vol. 29, no. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

[6] "Seeing yourself re-made as fiction".

[7] "Lebanese civil war explodes screen Incendies". 24 May 2011.

[8] "Incendies". Archived from the original on 2011-11-29. Retrieved 2019-04-13.

[9] Mouawad, Wajdi (2018). Incendies. Montreal: Leméac. p. 145. ISBN 978-2-7609-36188.

[10] Mouawad, Wajdi (2018). Incendies. Montreal: Leméac. p. 146. ISBN 978-2-7609-36188.

[11] J. Kelly Nestruck, "Mouawad fails, but in an interesting way". The Globe and Mail, July 20, 2009.

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