Tunisian theater director Tawfiq Jebali set out to mix theological hymns, Greek myth, and the poems of the “Divine Comedy” in his play “The Madman.” The play, adapted from the immortal text ‘The Crazy One’ by the Lebanese poet Gibran Khalil Gibran, combines and unites Al-Jabali with Gibran’s immortal text. “Why do we re-present this work more than 20 years after its production, because we need a voice that calls for humanity, calls for mercy...
a spiritual voice”