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\u00a0This June, award-winning standup and clown\u00a0Edib Farhan\u00a0makes their Hollywood Fringe Festival debut with\u00a0Syrian Soap, a 60-minute absurd ancestral intervention inspired by Syrian soap operas and set in an intergalactic bathhouse.\u00a0Performances will run June 13-20.<\/p>\n
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Eat, pray, bathe with Edib’s bumptious, mustachioed ancestor and find out if you are your ancestor’s wildest dreams\u2013or worst nightmare. He has notes! Receive channeled advice, poetry, and a surprise visit from a traditional Syrian bathroom slipper (which may or may not be a metaphor for life under fascism). Beneath the silliness and suds,\u00a0Syrian Soap\u00a0is a love letter to revolution and exile\u2014an invitation to unlock joy and self-expression in a world on fire. And a reminder: your healing goes back 7 generations\u2014but so do your f*ck-ups!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winner of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship funded by Hollywood Pantages Theatre and County Supervisor Lindsey P Horvath,\u00a0Syrian Soap\u00a0was selected by the National Queer Theater for the Criminal Queerness Festival, and highlighted in the\u00a0LA Times<\/a>. The show is directed and co-devised by Natasha Mercado.Creative consulting by: Zahra Noorbakhsh, Claire Woolner, Mike Rose, and Andel Sudik<\/a>.<\/p>\n About Edib Farhan:<\/p>\n Edib Farhan is a Syrian standup, clown, and conflict mediator. Edib has studied with the Idiot Workshop, Natasha Mercado, Claire Woolner, Groundlings, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, and iO Theater. Their co-created sketch and standup show won \u201cBest of San Francisco Fringe Festival\u201d in 2024 and they were selected by the National Queer Theater for the 2026 Criminal Queerness Festival.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ]]><\/p>\n ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! Los Angeles Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for Los Angeles & beyond.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":758678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-758677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116481707727466814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}