Job

Mikhail Naimy

"Naimy uses the story of Job in the Torah as a means to dramatize his intellectual convictions on the subject of suffering. He once said in one of his collections of proverbs, "Your enemy is a friend disguised as an enemy." As for how pain, the fiercest enemy of man, can be a friend disguised as an enemy, Naimy chose to answer this question not through analysis, reasoning, and proof, but through representation, embodiment, and manifestation on the stage. Hence this four-act play, and Naimy here does not merely repeat the story in the biblical Book of Job about one of the greatest sufferers and afflicted in human history, but rather departs from it to a point where it becomes apparent to the viewer that for the sufferer, there is no escape from pain except through pain itself. For as soon as we understand pain, it transforms within us – like a woman's labor pains – heralding a new birth. Dr. Nadim Naimy
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