About Hewar

Hewar Company for Independent Theater and Performing Arts

Hewar is an independent non-profit theater and performing arts company based in Alexandria Egypt.

‘Hewar’ is the transliteration of the Arabic word for dialogue "حوار"; dialogue is the main value around which our artistic practice revolves. Through our work, both locally and internationally, we are always working towards opening and facilitating Dialogue. 

Hewar Theater group has been working since 2005. In 2012, after the Arab Spring and the momentum of the political and social movement in the region, a need arose to establish the company and expand our projects beyond producing theater pieces to Theater Is A Must Independent International Theater forum, and international collaboration projects.  This transformation was also provoked by our emerging desire to be able to change cultural policies and have a say in the operation of our cultural context.

Hewar Company works on two main levels: 

• Theater productions that are focusing on international cross-cultural collaborations that are mainly concerned with local and global political contexts manifesting through post-dramatic and political dramaturgy-based productions.
• Theater Is A Must International Independent Theater Forum in Alexandria, Egypt.

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External Vision

Progressive Theater environment that appreciates and supports all types of groups and entities, and where Theater is also established as a strong form of expression and an influential tool for achieving social justice and equity.

Internal Vision

An innovative, creative, reality driven, technology and performance based, knowledge propelled, independent contemporary theater company.

Our Mission

To create spaces and forums for - and sometimes provoke - dialogue on different humanitarian and social issues among and between cultures, artists, performers and people in general.

Objectives

• Create and present contemporary theater productions.
• Reinforce the position of independent theater and performing arts in the Arab region.
• Create a link and a network between young Arab theater makers and their European counterpart.
• Advocate new forms of theater and performing arts aesthetics.
• Create, document, and archive works of contemporary political theater and performing arts in the Arab region and Europe.
• Create an open and uncensored space for young artists and critics to discuss theater and performing arts today in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and all the drastic global political transformations that followed.
• Assert the necessity of theater as an interactive entity capable of initiating change, breaking taboos, and providing societies with a much needed reflection.