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Egyptian play tackles taboo of religion

Egyptian director Tariq El-Dweiri wrote the play “The Trial,” to show what the Egyptian street has come to after a revolution brought to power religious thought.
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CAIRO — Watching the play "The Trial" is akin to a revolution — it shakes one's beliefs.

This is what director Tariq El-Dweiri intended when he meticulously prepared the production and screenplay adapted from "Inherit the Wind," the 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The illusion of a divide between the play and the audience is shattered. The play begins with the national anthem and the audience stands up, before realizing that it's merely part of the play. They then gasp in astonishment.

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