A very brief spanking swats in an Egyptian play, and it's (F / F). Year of production is 1979.
- An important note:
I wanted to put subtitles with the clip, so I've uploaded them to a file sharing site, and I'm sorry about the inconvenience.
- Basic information:
The url:
https://mega.nz/#!2ZsxXZAb!O2WRnFMJETXK ... kZb_13MRrQ
The play:
Arabic : العيال كبرت
literal translation : The Kids Have Grown up!
It's an Egyptian comic play, and was first performed in 1979.
Tthe Spankee:
نادية شكرى
Nadia Shoukri, an Egyptian actress, born in ( 2/1/1955) ; that's the first of February, not the second of January. And she still lives.
The spanker:
كريمة مختار
Kareema Moukhtar, an Egyptian actress, born in ( 1/16/1934), and she is also still alive. Coincidently, she was the wife of the late Noor Al-demerdash; the first spanker in the previous post about the movie, Too Young to Love !
- About the play and its plot:
- Introduction/Rant!
First of all, the 'art form' that referred to as 'A play' in the Egyptian media has nothing to do with the actual term; it's more like a prolonged comic sketch with a little to no story behind it, and, therefore, every great play-actor is also a great comedian as well. Of course, the ancient and noble tradition of Theatre still exists, but in the form of poorly funded small productions that almost no one hears of.
Rant's over!
Anyhow, this 'play' is one of the best of its kind, and it's one of a handful of plays that are broadcasted fanatically in every national holiday, as if watching them has become a holiday tradition; i.e. everyone in Egypt has seen this play.
- General look on the play;
The plot is very simple; an upper middle class family with a very traditional almost naïve housewife, played by the spanker; Kareema Moukhtar, that has no other job but caring for her children, that were no children anymore, and defend her husband, that one of her sons has found out a letter he was about to send to his mistress revealing his intention of abandoning his family to live with her. Of course, in Egypt, polygamy is legal for Muslim men. And a second marriage of an old man, or at least a much older than his new wife, that leads to him neglecting his yet-to-know-about-his-new -marriage first family is a common theme that is overplayed in many plays and movies and TV shows in Egypt and the Arab world in general.
The play from its start to finish is a series of jokes about the 'children' trying to convince the father to stay with them by improving themselves to be good kids in his eyes, and of them trying to convince their mother to 'make some effort' to enamor their father. And because they're planning all that without their mother knowing what's going on, they have grown tired of her naiveness about her own husband's intentions, and she has lost her temper because of their rudeness that they direct toward their own father!
- Spanking scene;
And that where the spanking comes from; the older son, Sultan, is going to find their father to tell him that they know of his plan and to try to convince him to stay, while the rest of his siblings are hiding their father's clothes, to prevent him from fleeing the house on his ' job's related travel' when he comes home to retrieve his suitcase, and that ' job's travel' was actually the excuse that he gave their mother to delay her realization of him leaving her as much as possible.
So, the mother is asking her off springs about the whereabouts of their father's clothes, mistaking their hiding of it for their love of their father so they don't want be apart with him, even for the short duration that his ' job's trabvel' will last. While her children still don't want to shock her by telling her the truth behind their father sudden need for ' traveling'.
So, the mother is having a go on her children because of their passive aggressive attitude against their father , and start lecturing them about it.
'Ateff, the youngest and the not so bright ( and, of course, the amount of un-PC jokes that arouse from his slowness is rather frustrating) , is crying as soon as their mother is lecturing him, and present his hand for his mother to slap it as a punishment. He cries, and his older sister; Sahar, second youngest of the four siblings, is cheering joyfully, so her older brother; Kamal, second oldest, is holding her and present her bottom to their mother, and suggests that she too deserve a punishment (probably because she laughed at her brother's 'agony'), so the mother spanks her daughter, and it's the youngest brother turn to laugh at her being slapped on her 'face' while his slapping was on the hand. And this was meant as a joke, given that there is no 'polite' word for buttocks in colloquial Arabic. (Actually, young children are taught to refer to that part of their body by home-made words that ever so changing, as if it was a sex organ or something!)
- The ' moral of the 'play', so to speak, ;
In case you're interested in the full plot of the play, I'll go very quickly through it;
The play is all about the jokes, but the key element of the 'story' is that every member of the family needed to 'evolve', and that the fear of the father fleeing the home formed the basis of that 'evolving'. So, by comparing what the characters were trying to achieve in the beginning of the play with what they matured to aspire to in the end of the plat, the poorly written plot can be revealed;
1- Ramadan El-Sokkary, the father, wanted to abandon his family and to have a second wife, ended been a faithful husband and abandoned his second-marriage thoughts.
2- Zainub Gad-Allah, the mother, was somewhat a mother more than a wife ( * I know; traditional af!) and she ended up making more effort to 'keep' her husband's attention.
3- Soultan, the eldest son, a failing student that failed high school enough times to remain in it, while his younger brother has graduated college!, has decided to give studying his best, and stop his irresponsible behavior.
4- Kammal, the second eldest son, the smart one with excellent achievements academically, was in love with an old falling woman with four children, and in the end agrees to find someone else, and understands that the woman was playing him for his youth and bright future.
5- Sahar, second youngest, wanted to be a belly dancer (a job that equated with been a sex worker in the common man's mind. P.S prostitution is illegal in Egypt, so this is as close as it gets), but in the end, she abandons the idea.
6- 'Ateff, the youngest, had an intense celebrity crush on Soad Hosny, and neglected his studying, daydreaming about her. The in the end, comes to his senses, and realizes that she is an unattainable, and focuses on his studying.
- An important note:
I wanted to put subtitles with the clip, so I've uploaded them to a file sharing site, and I'm sorry about the inconvenience.
- Basic information:
The url:
https://mega.nz/#!2ZsxXZAb!O2WRnFMJETXK ... kZb_13MRrQ
The play:
Arabic : العيال كبرت
literal translation : The Kids Have Grown up!
It's an Egyptian comic play, and was first performed in 1979.
Tthe Spankee:
نادية شكرى
Nadia Shoukri, an Egyptian actress, born in ( 2/1/1955) ; that's the first of February, not the second of January. And she still lives.
The spanker:
كريمة مختار
Kareema Moukhtar, an Egyptian actress, born in ( 1/16/1934), and she is also still alive. Coincidently, she was the wife of the late Noor Al-demerdash; the first spanker in the previous post about the movie, Too Young to Love !
- About the play and its plot:
- Introduction/Rant!
First of all, the 'art form' that referred to as 'A play' in the Egyptian media has nothing to do with the actual term; it's more like a prolonged comic sketch with a little to no story behind it, and, therefore, every great play-actor is also a great comedian as well. Of course, the ancient and noble tradition of Theatre still exists, but in the form of poorly funded small productions that almost no one hears of.
Rant's over!
Anyhow, this 'play' is one of the best of its kind, and it's one of a handful of plays that are broadcasted fanatically in every national holiday, as if watching them has become a holiday tradition; i.e. everyone in Egypt has seen this play.
- General look on the play;
The plot is very simple; an upper middle class family with a very traditional almost naïve housewife, played by the spanker; Kareema Moukhtar, that has no other job but caring for her children, that were no children anymore, and defend her husband, that one of her sons has found out a letter he was about to send to his mistress revealing his intention of abandoning his family to live with her. Of course, in Egypt, polygamy is legal for Muslim men. And a second marriage of an old man, or at least a much older than his new wife, that leads to him neglecting his yet-to-know-about-his-new -marriage first family is a common theme that is overplayed in many plays and movies and TV shows in Egypt and the Arab world in general.
The play from its start to finish is a series of jokes about the 'children' trying to convince the father to stay with them by improving themselves to be good kids in his eyes, and of them trying to convince their mother to 'make some effort' to enamor their father. And because they're planning all that without their mother knowing what's going on, they have grown tired of her naiveness about her own husband's intentions, and she has lost her temper because of their rudeness that they direct toward their own father!
- Spanking scene;
And that where the spanking comes from; the older son, Sultan, is going to find their father to tell him that they know of his plan and to try to convince him to stay, while the rest of his siblings are hiding their father's clothes, to prevent him from fleeing the house on his ' job's related travel' when he comes home to retrieve his suitcase, and that ' job's travel' was actually the excuse that he gave their mother to delay her realization of him leaving her as much as possible.
So, the mother is asking her off springs about the whereabouts of their father's clothes, mistaking their hiding of it for their love of their father so they don't want be apart with him, even for the short duration that his ' job's trabvel' will last. While her children still don't want to shock her by telling her the truth behind their father sudden need for ' traveling'.
So, the mother is having a go on her children because of their passive aggressive attitude against their father , and start lecturing them about it.
'Ateff, the youngest and the not so bright ( and, of course, the amount of un-PC jokes that arouse from his slowness is rather frustrating) , is crying as soon as their mother is lecturing him, and present his hand for his mother to slap it as a punishment. He cries, and his older sister; Sahar, second youngest of the four siblings, is cheering joyfully, so her older brother; Kamal, second oldest, is holding her and present her bottom to their mother, and suggests that she too deserve a punishment (probably because she laughed at her brother's 'agony'), so the mother spanks her daughter, and it's the youngest brother turn to laugh at her being slapped on her 'face' while his slapping was on the hand. And this was meant as a joke, given that there is no 'polite' word for buttocks in colloquial Arabic. (Actually, young children are taught to refer to that part of their body by home-made words that ever so changing, as if it was a sex organ or something!)
- The ' moral of the 'play', so to speak, ;
In case you're interested in the full plot of the play, I'll go very quickly through it;
The play is all about the jokes, but the key element of the 'story' is that every member of the family needed to 'evolve', and that the fear of the father fleeing the home formed the basis of that 'evolving'. So, by comparing what the characters were trying to achieve in the beginning of the play with what they matured to aspire to in the end of the plat, the poorly written plot can be revealed;
1- Ramadan El-Sokkary, the father, wanted to abandon his family and to have a second wife, ended been a faithful husband and abandoned his second-marriage thoughts.
2- Zainub Gad-Allah, the mother, was somewhat a mother more than a wife ( * I know; traditional af!) and she ended up making more effort to 'keep' her husband's attention.
3- Soultan, the eldest son, a failing student that failed high school enough times to remain in it, while his younger brother has graduated college!, has decided to give studying his best, and stop his irresponsible behavior.
4- Kammal, the second eldest son, the smart one with excellent achievements academically, was in love with an old falling woman with four children, and in the end agrees to find someone else, and understands that the woman was playing him for his youth and bright future.
5- Sahar, second youngest, wanted to be a belly dancer (a job that equated with been a sex worker in the common man's mind. P.S prostitution is illegal in Egypt, so this is as close as it gets), but in the end, she abandons the idea.
6- 'Ateff, the youngest, had an intense celebrity crush on Soad Hosny, and neglected his studying, daydreaming about her. The in the end, comes to his senses, and realizes that she is an unattainable, and focuses on his studying.
Statistics: Posted by faryak — Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:45 pm