A white house with a green roof and a unique cylindrical tower feature with a glass panel, small windows, and stairs leading up to an entrance.

Black and white drawing of two tall office buildings with a smaller building next to them, with cars parked in the foreground and a grassy area. Persian text above the buildings.

A group of people dressed as angels with white robes and wings are gathered in front of a large stone structure, with their hands raised upward.

Modern single-story house with brick walls, a rust-colored metal fence and landscaping with desert plants, gravel, and cactus.

Three men in business attire standing outdoors near a large bronze sculpture of a paper plane. A cityscape with various buildings and a cloudy sky are in the background.

A theatre stage scene with three actors, one woman standing and two kneeling, in a minimalistic, modern set with wooden slats, a microphone stand, a small table, and overhead lighting.

Blurred image of residential buildings, one with arched passageways and another with windows.

A person wearing a large, metallic, spiral-shaped costume resembling a drill bit or a turbine, with a black background.

Blurry image of a modern building with plants on either side, interior lighting, and a white floor, with a dark ceiling with overhead lights.

‘Hamletmachine’
@ The Egg Beirut

based on Heiner Müller’s

City street scene at dusk showing multi-story buildings, parked cars, and a street with moving cars and a motorcyclist, with a corner building with balconies and striped fabric on the top floor.

Map showing a route from a bar, with Hamlet, drunk leaving towards The Egg, marked with a yellow dot, and a mini bus picking up eggs from a port, heading towards The Egg, marked with a blue dot. The map also indicates the Beirut Port explosion radius.

An old, abandoned building shaped like a large boat hull with weathered, rusty exterior. In front, there's a small tree and a minibus, with a city skyline in the background.

A collage of four images: the top left shows an unfinished and abandoned indoor construction site with exposed concrete walls, metal scaffolding, and debris on the floor; the top right depicts an exterior view of a large, weathered concrete building with an open door and metal staircase leading to it; the bottom left features an old, rusted, cylindrical tank with stairs attached, situated in a cityscape with multiple high-rise buildings in the background; the bottom right displays a hand-drawn illustration of a modern building complex with two tall towers, with writing in an unidentified script at the top.

Located in the heart of Beirut is the structure known as 'the egg' or 'the dome.' Originally intended as a cinema or cultural center, its construction was halted by the civil war, leaving it incomplete yet deeply ingrained in the city's identity. It stands as a reminder of Beirut's ambitious past, its presence looming over the urban chaos, serving as a symbol of past dreams and present realities.

INSIDE THE EGG:

A woman in business attire stands at a table, serving herself a fried egg on a plate, in an abandoned room with five men in suits facing a large, projected image of an egg on a frying pan on the wall behind them.

Inside the 'egg' structure, 128 Hamlets dressed in suits fry eggs, with a close up of their actions being live projected to the internal surface of the building. As the scene unfolds, the air is filled with the sizzle of frying eggs, a symbol both mundane and profound. The Hamlets, each absorbed in their task, crack eggs into hot pans, the sound echoing through the cavernous space. Amidst this orchestrated chaos, Ophelia consumes the eggs in the foreground.

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A group of small white figurines with raised arms are arranged in a semicircle around a stone memorial or monument. They are in front of a dark, shadowed area with bright lighting highlighting their silhouettes.

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