GUC TCS to perform two plays on Thursday

CAIRO – 18 February 2018: GUC Theater and Cinema School theatrical troupe will perform two comedy plays on the GUC Theater on Thursday February 22. The two plays are the graduation project of the 2018 seniors.

“Although our two upcoming performances are comic, they’re completely based on the Egyptian youth's socio-economic situation in Egypt,” Hatem Elwy, member of GUC Theater & Cinema School (TCS) told Egypt Today.

Elwy said that “Civil War”, one of the two performances, revolves around an Egyptian young man whose dream is to become an actor. He faces the first and the biggest challenge when his father denies him the right to pursue his dream. The story turns tragic when the young man gets stuck in a series of problems and the father is the only one to help him solve it.The play is written and directed by Kamel El Shafeay, one of the troupe’s members.

The other play, entitled “Once upon A Time, A Man Lived”, revolves around the story of an Egyptian citizen who wants to live his life normally but is always bombarded by cultural and social struggles. The main character faces challenges in dealing with his family and with the whole country; these challenges urge him to leave the country in search for a better life in another place with other people. The play is directed by Tarek El Saeed.

Founded in 2011, TCS is the first club for Theater & Cinema in the GUC, where professional directors give various acting, directing, movie editing, movie shooting and script writing workshops. Their vision is based on creating an art space in the university to teach arts as the most effective form of communication between people.

In their plays, they use black comedy to discuss serious social or political problems in a sarcastic way. They used the same approach in presenting the classical play "The Bridge" that was performed in classical Arabic."The Bridge" participated in the National Theatre Festival, where it won the Best Performance Award.

TCS has previously staged the university’s theater as well as many other theaters, and received several prizes such as the Audience Award and the Creative Group Award for their play, "Tree of Bitterness", at El Sawy cultural Wheel in 2013.