The Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre is officially kicking off its 25th edition on Monday at the main hall of the Cairo Opera House as the opening ceremony starts at eight before showing the Swiss photographic play You and I.
The festival, which ends 21 September, will honor two Egyptian theatre icons, famous actor Ezzat El-Alaily and puppeteer Nagy Shaker, who died last month at the age of 86, in addition to a few other international theatre icons including American playwright David Henry Hwang and German Theatre scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann.