Theatro INSAT’s Jalila and Rami

Saint Valentine’s Day! The day of love, or so the fallacy has been modulated in the public’s opinion.

Love stories, throughout history, are numerous. Kays and Leila, Jamil and Boutheina, Casanova (and everyone), Kaleb and Hazel Grace, Jack and Rose, Romeo and Juliette, etc.

As a token of a celebration of this controversial day, THEATRO INSAT commemorated the prominent fête with a comic play portraying a unique, one of a kind love story, the tale of Rami and Jalila.

However, it’s not the stereotypical fairy tale where boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl get married and live happily ever after.

Neither is it the conventional tragedy where one of the lovers eventually dies. It’s the club’s own vision of a Romeo and Juliette parody.

Jalila comes from a conservative family and an overall conservative entourage. She meets Rami at an engagement ceremony where he slips her his number inside a piece of pastry. They instantly, banally, and hilariously fall in love with each other.

Misfortunately, her parents would never allow this relationship to ever exist and havoc would ensue should they find out (they eventually do find out). Jalila’s father, Hmed, is a partial drunk, a big perv and a greedy man. The only plans he has for his daughter is to tie her with her rich cousin Rabie.

Jalila’s mother, Lamia, doesn’t care for the money, but she happens to have a feud with Rami’s mother.

When Hmed and Lamia find out about their daughter’s improper behavior (dating Rami behind their backs), they lock her up at home and force her to marry Rabie.

Jalila, picking love over family, is left with no choice but to run away with her beloved. Tragically and humorously, the 2 silly knuckleheads, lacking trust in one another, betrayed each other by poisoning their me

als (Rami poisoning the ‘Bsissa’ with insecticide – Jalila contaminating the ‘Torchi’ with rat’s poison). The story ends with both of them dying in a laughable manner.

Much laughter, praise, and applause were the fast-prepared job’s reward and that’s more than enough to lift the club members’ spirits. It seems that THEATRO INSAT still has and will never cease to amaze.