Le Dernier Cèdre du Liban - La Scène Montparnasse, Paris

Eva, an orphan from birth, receives dozens of micro-cassettes containing the voice of her mother, a war reporter, on her 18th birthday. Eva, very intelligent but above all very angry, is a young resident of the Closed Educational Centre for minors in Mont de Marsan. Abandoned at birth, she knows nothing of her parents. However, on that day, summoned to the notary, she receives her inheritance: dozens of micro-cassettes and a dictaphone – her mother's voice on hours and hours of recordings. The Lebanese War, Arafat's speech at the UN, the fall of the Berlin Wall… Anna Duval was a war reporter. Eva then delves into a whole decade of journalism to discover her own Great Story. Tahar – Horsh Arz el-Rab. “The Forest of the Cedars of God”. It’s a somewhat sacred place for us. In the heart of this forest, among the other centuries-old cedars, there is a tree blackened by fire. It’s the only one. They say it was struck by lightning, just like that, all at once. One of the oldest in the forest. It was over 3000 years old, apparently. A few days before you arrived, I went for a walk in Bcharré. Up to that tree. I climbed the mountain until I reached that ebony wood. And there, at my feet, in the hollow of its trunk, I found its fruit, intact.

Duration – 1h30

All audiences

Artistic Team

A play by Aïda ASGHARZADEH

Directed by Nikola CARTON

Lighting and Set Design Vincent LEFÈVRE

Music Chadi CHOUMAN

With, in alternation

Maëlis Adalle or Maëlys Certenais

Magali Genoud or Pauline Bression or Aïda Asgharzadeh

Azeddine Benamara or Fayçal Safi

Press reviews

« An epic quest conducted at full speed  » ELLE

« An incandescent trio  » LE PARISIEN

« Fabulous play  » LE FIGARO

« A theatrical gem  » MAXI MAGAZINE

Practical information:

Metro Montparnasse (lines 4, 6, 12, 13)