CAIRO—“Minus One”, a play produced by students of Egypt’s Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, recently won an extended run at a prestigious professional theatre here.
The show had been planned to run only between November 14 and 19 at El-Hanager Arts Centre’s theatre, within the Cairo Opera House complex. But the play proved so popular that Shady Sorour, the arts centre’s director general, extended its run until November 23.
The play deals with the physical struggles of a child with speech and physical disabilities and the emotional struggles of his parents. At the age of 5, the child manages to chant a single sentence, “Where will we go, Daddy?”
To deal with their son’s situation, the parents resort to medicine, special education, and quackery.