"To Hell With Meryl Streep!"

There is nothing personal against Meryl Streep, of course. Testofil Meryl Streep (“To Hell With Meryl Streep!”) is the title of a play which is on stage at the al-Madina theatre in Beirut from March 7 through April 9.

Based on a novel by Rashid ad-Da’if (described as the Arab counterpart of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco), transposed into a theatrical play by Muhammad Kacimi, translated into Lebanese dialect by Elie Karam, Testofil Meryl Streep has been hailed as a frontal attack against the taboos of Middle Eastern societies, with an unexpectedly frank language that exposes the grim real life of a middle-class married couple.