Tomas Pevenage / Antigone - Sabah

The fascination for Arab divas was the starting point for Tomas for a ten-year wandering through Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. An area characterized by crises, wars, revolutions, and conflicts where the queer community dangerously balances between visibility and safety. In Sabahlaat Tomas Pevenage you get to know the Middle East, its divas, and in particular the Lebanese pop and film star Sabah (1927-2014). She used her hedonistic lifestyle as a weapon until her very last days. Through intimate telephone conversations with his mother, he sketches his relationships, loves, and desires, from the nightclubs of Beirut to the steaming bathhouses of Damascus. “Pevenage shines as a player: a comic timing, transformation ability, and lived expression of a bilingual Arab-Dutch text, no lack of it.” - Pzazz.be CREDITS FROM AND WITH Tomas Pevenage FINAL DIRECTION Randi De Vlieghe COACHING Dahlia Pessemiers-Benamar CO-PRODUCTION Perpodium SCENOGRAPHY Jana Roos MUSIC Wouter Deltour and Sueño de Smet COSTUMES Jana Roos MAKE-UP Hassandra LIGHTING DESIGN Jonas Lambrigts SOUND DESIGN Niels Vanherpe and Pim Mannaerts WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Tax Shelter-measure of the Belgian federal government via Cronos Invest and Stad Kortrijk WITH THANKS TO De Grote Post ǀ ANTIGONE.BE