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 Elie
Antoine Lahoud
Curriculum
Vitae
Date and Place of Birth: 21/9/1947 – Amchit (District: Jbeil)
Province: Mount Lebanon
Address: Aamchit – Al Saha – St Antonios
Street – In his property
Marital Status: Married to Florence Ida Bonnat (French nationality)
and has two children: Maya and Marc Antoine
Certificates:
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License and University Post-Graduate Degree in Theatre and Directing
– Institute of Fine Arts (Lebanese University 1972)
- License in Arabic Language and Literature – Pedagogy (Lebanese
University 1972)
- Doctorate in Directing and Theatrical Science (Paris, France –
Sorbonne 1977) – Grade A (See the portfolio of the professor
at the faculty)
- Journalist, Images’ Reporter (International School of Bordeaux)
Career:
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Professor in the cadre in the Institute of Fine Arts (2) since 1980
- Head of the Department of Acting in the Institute of Fine Arts
(2) (1999-2001) actually in 2005 (Theatre department)
- Member in the Scientific Committee – Institute of Fine Arts
(Lebanese University) – Member in the Committee of Certificates’
Verification and Equivalence
- Member in the Committee of Program’s elaborating in the
Institute of Fine Arts – Lebanese University and the High
LMD Committee (new program)
- Academic grade: Professor
- Masters professor at the University of Holy Spirit (USEK-Kaslik)
Rewards:
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Major in the session of Arts (grade: very good) – University
scholarship to specialize abroad by virtue of the regulation of
delegating the brilliants to outside (Paris 1972)
- Holder of theatre badge, Tragedy and Comedy Masks granted by the
Minister of Culture – Ministry of Culture – the City
Theatre (Clemenceau)
- Holder of best presentation reward in the First Festival of Greek
Ancient Drama in Paphos – Cyprus 1998, 2003, 2004 (3rd &
4th) and 2005
- Member of the referee’s committee in the Theatrical Golf
Festival – Kuwait 1997
- Guest of Theatrical Festival of Kuwait and interlocutor in its
seminar – Kuwait 2005
- Honoring Shield at Joconde Cultual Festival – under the
patronage of the Ministry of Culture – Honoring of the distinguished
persons in culture and stars.
- Honoring Shield and Appreciation during the first, second and
third Culture Festivals (The Apostles Institute – Jounieh)
- Honoring Shield during the 4th Theatrical Arab Festival (Cairo)–
April 2005
- Shield of Aamchit Club during the fiftieth (Jubilee)- Shield of
Cultural Committee in the region of Jbeil (2005)
Artistic
and Moral Production:
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40 big Theatrical Productions (Acting, Composing, Directing)
- Participation to local and international festivals (… Rennes,
Berlin, Munich, Cairo, Marseille, …, Kuwait, London, Prague,
Copenhagen…), worldwide seminars and scientific conferences.
Seven lectures about the Greek theatre as main interlocutor.
- Several articles, researches, printed publications or not printed
- Two books: Squirrel Cage (in French) and The Perplexed (story)
- Graduated ten sessions from his Atelier (that he manages) in Aamchit
(75 actors) from 1982 till this date
- Collection of Poems not printed and journalistic articles and
criticism
- Distinguished and estimated artistic production (honored by the
Lebanese University)
Responsibilities:
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Head of the Department of Acting- Institute of Fine Arts (2) Lebanese
University (for 2 times)- Actually Theatre Department
- Professors’ Delegate- for 6 years- Institute of Fine Arts
- Member at the Teachers’ League Executive Committee (previously)
Lebanese University
- Member at the Actors Syndicate Council and Cultural and Information
Secretary
- Head of the Lebanese Theatrical Center (ITI) related to the UNESCO-
Branch of Lebanon (currently)
- Foundator and Supervisor of the Theatrical Atelier in Aamchit
since 1982 till now
- Member in the Association of Lebanese writers
- Member in the Syndicate of Journalism and Writers- Manager and
Editor-in-Chief of “Al Nadi Magazine” – non political
magazine
- President of Aamchit Club (previously) and actually member in
its Consultancy Council
- Member in the Cultural Council in Jbeil
- Head of the Delegates’ Council in the Artistic Syndicates’
Association (2000-2004)
- Honorary member in the high International Committee of Ancient
Greek Theatre till this date
- Founder and Director of the Theatrical Core Troupe
- Director of the private atelier for Professional adaptation- Aamchit
Theatre
The
Theatrical Core Troupe presents “Judas Iscariot”
Composition: Hubert Gignoux
Lebanism and Directing: Dr. Elie A. Lahoud
Actors:
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Judas
- The Satan
- Judas’s Mother
- The Leprous
- The Jewish (1)
- The Jewish (2)
- The Pharisee (1)
- The Pharisee (2)
Speech:
Who
among us didn’t know Judas, Jesus’s disciple, who vended
him for thirty silver coins?
Who among us didn’t recognize the betrayal and its kiss?
Who didn’t encounter even once the Satan or the Evil Spirit?
The weakness of Human being in front of temptation and money?
The collusion of authorities all together against the word?
The fear of truth that destroys the thrones’ pillars?
The triumph of Evil against the Good
It is an old story but it is still occuring… and will remain…
for ever.
What is Judas’s play?
Judas
is a cry in the heart of an opportunist society, consuming human
being day after day without neither pity nor mercy, gasping for
a handful of dollars or even thirty silver coins. How is the game
of purchase and sell linked to the demagogy, how is the theorization
performed, allowing the bargain and the betrayal’s game to
pass?
The
bribe is a bargain, a deal or a contract. The betrayal is cleverness,
smartness or brilliance. The betrayer is unaware that he is a victim,
a tool and at the end of the day a stupid not a hero. We are not
heroes. Honesty is priceless, as well as the loyalty is invaluable.
If
we accept to apply the financial regulations and to make of the
principles and beliefs a commercial and beliefs a commercial, financial,
mechanical and automatic context, we will deviate from the right
way and everything becomes possible.
Nothing is impossible in a society worshipping money. The tempting
Satan is omnipresent, going along with the human being’s act
and is ready to whisper in his ears at every moment.
The rigorous, extremist and conflicting Pharisees exist every time
and everywhere. The power and money glitters are correlatives and
govern the humanity at times together and at another time by rotating.
We
are surrounded. Dealing with Universe – its stuff, elements
and contradictions as well as the vital elements for its continuity
– is imposed on us and we have no escape from its universe
dialectic, its fatalism and determinism.
Nevertheless
and in the middle of this fascinating and satanic game, we always
have to choose. Why we always have to choose? To agree or to disagree,
to belong or not to belong, to be carried away and guided or to
object, refuse, withstand or persevere. Why to look for a price
for everything…?!
We
are both unfree and free. Innocent and accused like Judas.
The game is not concluded. The life flows like a river, without
stopping and we stop for a while to wonder… we follow it,
running breathless, we are always unaware of its end and we pursue
it blissful when we become tied to the body and its delights and
the narcissist vanity.
Book: Noyau Théâtral 1982 - 2007
Atelier théâtre d'Amchit
Contact:
florencelahoud@hotmail.com
- flmamlah@yahoo.com
Physical address: Amchit
Telephone: 09/621323 – 09/682305 - Fax: 09/623305
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