What About Tomorrow?

A new Lebanese film, "What About Tomorrow?", which is made up of grainy footage of a 38 - year - old play by legendary singer-writer Ziad Rahbani, crushed box office records in Lebanon in January. The then - 22- year - old Rahbani, whose mother is Lebanon's greatest singer and icon Fairouz, wrote the play to speak to the country's internecine troubles but through his now famous sardonic, jet black humour. Set in a bar, with Rahbani himself playing bartender Zakariya, a series of comic interludes take place before a searing monologue for the need for greater social equality kicks in. That very same, almost four decades later, is bringing audiences to its feet.

Ziad Rahbani Source: Wikimedia

A new Lebanese film, "What About Tomorrow?", which is made up of grainy footage of a 38 - year - old play by legendary singer-writer Ziad Rahbani, crushed box office records in Lebanon in January. The then - 22- year - old Rahbani, whose mother is Lebanon's greatest singer and icon Fairouz, wrote the play to speak to the country's internecine troubles but through his now famous sardonic, jet black humour. Set in a bar, with Rahbani himself playing bartender Zakariya, a series of comic interludes take place before a searing monologue for the need for greater social equality kicks in. That very same, almost four decades later, is bringing audiences to its feet