Tarik Alali with Khalil Ismail

The parparashop owner

A satirical stage play that explores the challenges facing sports in Kuwait, including fanaticism, social issues affecting athletes, and the role of official committees sent by the federation to represent the country in international events.

A Kuwaiti family offered the upper floor of their house for rent, then later there was a housing crisis and the children of the family became of marriageable age, and from here the problem of acquiring the upper floor begins, first, with the solidarity of the family members to take out the lessor, and secondly, the conflict between the sons of the same family to acquire the upper floor

The events revolve around the journalist Maysa, who wants to conduct a journalistic investigation into the problems of maids, so she helps her friend, who owns an office to recruit maids, by disguising herself as a domestic worker in order to see the problems herself.

The events of the play take place in a singles’ house inhabited by dozens of people of different nationalities, and it sheds light on the solutions to the problems, concerns and suffering of singles in Kuwait in general, whether they are expatriates or citizens, in a purposeful critical comedic framework. It also alerts the competent authorities in the country to a number of illegal violations and transgressions and presents Some positive solutions to this problem that society suffers from before the state.

The play discusses in a social comedy framework the debt problems of Kuwaitis, where people write checks on themselves without credit, which leads to many problems that appear on stage in a comedic way

The events of the play revolve around the housing crisis and the problems that citizens are going through to obtain housing, and the state of some government houses that are distributed to citizens after a period.