"Exile saves you even as it shatters you," said Wajdi Mouawad, a Lebanese-born writer, director and performer who is one of the most-produced playwrights in France and Canada. Mouawad knows whereof he speaks: He has spent much of his life in a kind of exile. Born in Lebanon in 1968, his family moved to France when he was a child, fleeing what turned into a 15-year civil war. The family later relocated to Canada, wher…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:10AM on September 11, 2015