A bus to nowhere where everyone's a liar and salvation is just another performance.
The story revolves around a bus that gets lost in the desert, and the play presents the human models represented by the bus riders and the mistakes and sins of each passenger. When they are about to die of hunger and thirst, each of them declares his repentance and decides to reform himself, so will their positions change after their salvation?
Acting
Samiha Ayoub's Sousou — chaos queen of the dunes.
Direction
Ardash turns a stalled bus into existential theater.
Production
Black-and-white desert that swallows hope whole.
Director
Saad Ardash
Samiha Ayoub
سوسو
Tawfiq Al-Deqen
الريجيسير
Shafiq Nour ElDein
سائق الأتوبيس
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
الصحفي
Fouad Shafiq
إسماعيل البحراوي
Ahmed ElGezeiry
العمدة سليمان
Ragaa Hussein
إلهام - الزوجة الخائنة
Abdel Salam Mohamed
فتوح فتحي فتوح
Mahmoud Azmy
سائق الفنطاس
Mohamed El-Sabaa
حسين أبو السعود - رئيس مجلس إدارة الفلين
Malak Elgamal
مدام جلنار
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Naguib Mahfouz's play, this captures 1960s Egyptian cinema's turn toward social allegory disguised as popular entertainment.
Ardash was a theater director first — notice how the bus becomes a stage, the desert a blank backdrop for human theater.
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