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Quote by Wajdi Mouawad
From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.
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The quote compares stepping onto a theater stage with becoming a poem. It suggests that, from that moment, a person’s presence and actions are no longer ordinary conversation or movement; they form a meaningful, expressive performance for the audience.
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- TotalEnergies Foundation
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- Official Statement
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Scraps Against the Light
Behind the old cinema, Mara stitched tiny worlds from discarded cloth. She had forgotten how to let anyone see them—until a group of children turned the town’s everyday motions into a play no one could perform alone.
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