(2015) By ‘Issam Mahfouz. Translated by Robert Myers and Nada Saab. PAJ: A Journal of the Performing Arts 37.1: 97-125. 
English language world premiere presented by Beirut’s Tahweel Ensemble Theatre and AUB’s Theatre Initiative and directed by Sahar Assaf at the Between the Seas Festival, New York, September 10 & 12, 2015.

[Excerpt]

THE GENERAL

The boots.

SAADOUN

What about them?

THE GENERAL

Polish them.

SAADOUN

Yes, sir. (He bends down in front of the general’s feet and spits on his boots to shine them. THE GENERAL kicks SAADOUN, making him fall on his back.)

THE GENERAL

You spat on the boots?

SAADOUN

I spat to shine them.

THE GENERAL

On the boots, Saadoun? (SAADOUN puts his bag on his back and walks toward the door.)

THE GENERAL

And the revolution?

SAADOUN

That’s right, the revolution. (SAADOUN puts down his bag.)

THE GENERAL

They’re late. My men are late.

SAADOUN

Maybe he bought them.

THE GENERAL

Bought them?

SAADOUN

With cookies and chocolate.

THE GENERAL

Is it possible they sold me out for chocolate?

SAADOUN

They’d sell you out for a lot less, my General. Peter sold out the Messiah for supper.