Artist, Farouk Flux has criticized artist Ahmed El-Sakka’s idea of re-presenting the show ‘My Beautiful Lady’, starring the late Shweikar and Fouad Al-Mohandes, during the Riyadh season where he will co-star Reem Mustafa.
Flux who participated in the original version of the play said during the remarks brought by ‘An-Nahar’ that the play presented in the black and white era cannot be returned or quoted permanently.
He stressed that he’s not talking about people, but the idea of retelling that they presented under difficult circumstances, the glass of the theater was blue at the time, and in wartime 1967, despite this, the show has become iconic.
He asked, ‘The show has spanned many years, so what are they going to perform again? A bad decision on their part, but I wish them success.’ the wonderful Shweikar, pointing out that most of the artists of this generation are similar to each other.
He concluded that the decision to submit the play would have been correct if it had a new and different story from the novel, advising Sakka to submit the late Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Al-Madaq Alley and Bahjat Qamar’s writing, because it is fantastic from his point of view.
