Vögel (Birds of a Kind)

In New York, Eitan fall in love with Wahida, who is of Arab origins. Eitan’s Jewish parents, and especially his father David, the son of a Holocaust-survivor, are unable to accept this love. The conflict escalates. When the couple travels to Israel, Eitan is seriously injured during a bomb attack at the border and ends up in a coma. At his sickbed, things that have been long kept under wraps are finally talked about. The love story turns into a family thriller and finally into a modern Oedipus-narrative. Wajdi Mouawad, a Franco-Canadian theatre maker and multiple award-winning author was born in Lebanon. His play Vögel (Birds of a Kind), written in four languages, is a powerful and poetic portrait of both the enduring conflict in the Middle East and the topics of family, identity and guilt – and the unquenched longing to rid oneself of it.

In German, English, Hebrew and Arabic, with German and English surtitles.