About two years ago, theatre-goers at the Arriaga marvelled at Incendios (Incendies), a play by Lebanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad. Now, Mouawad’s Vögel is coming from Germany, in a production in Germany, Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles in Spanish and Basque. Vögel is both a thriller and a modern fairy tale. With the force of an ancient tragedy, Mouawad tells a story of violence, individual destinies and family conflicts against the backdrop of the Middle East conflict.

In the reading room of a university library in New York, Eitan, a young biogeneticist from Berlin, falls in love with Wahida. When he introduces his new girlfriend to his parents and his grandfather, a survivor of the Shoah, it causes a scandal. Wahida is Arab and unacceptable to Eitan’s father. In search of his family’s roots, Eitan travels to Israel with Wahida. Here, Wahida becomes aware of her long-denied Arab identity. And Eitan learns from his grandmother a well-kept family secret.

Show in German, Hebrew and Arabic, with subtitles in Spanish and Basque