Written & Directed by Manal Barakat
Graduation Project

When the fathers have no work, when they stay at home, the balance of the family structure is disturbed.

In Act 1 we get the bad news: the father is fired from his job.  With little to occupy him, he takes the liberty of intervening in family issues that are usually the tasks of the mother. Soon enough, there is chaos in the house. And fighting. The mother decides to find herself a job.

Act II is a comic nightmare of our father physically being transformed into a mother. In this new female body, he faces his wife who has been transformed into a man. Not any man but one with information, a position in the community, and respect of his neighbours.

In Act III, the father faces his family and his situation. With the acceptance of this new reality, he is able to look at his family with a loving heart, and new job to do. To love and care for his children and to connect to them as individuals in his life. He also discovers that his love of poetry and literature can be shared with his children.

AmBa is a mix of Mama and Papa (in Arabic Yama and Yabba).

The Actresses
Anhar Al Masri as the Mother
Hanna Al Ghol as the Father
Fadwa Joda as the Daughter
Maryam Al Ostaz as the Son

Artistic Supervision

Jan Willems & Rafat Al Aydi

Administration
RandaMuhana
Amal Abu Dawood
Maryam Enaia
RawiaMushtaha
Kamal Shublaq                       

Technical Team
Riyad Al Akhras
Ahmad Qadada
Ashraf Sarhan
Ola Salem & Wisam Al Dirawi
Mohammed Nofel                   

& In Jerusalem
Jackie Lubeck, Francis Tams, and Hadeel Sous