Albert Camus ‘s The misunderstanding at Mehregan Hall

The director wrote about the show "Because of pandemic, we sometimes had to cancel the rehearsals, but we continued to rehearse in difficult conditions. and the most important point that Camus has made in this play is why man chooses his own path in every issue; What is projected in Camus's work is a declaration of the absurdity of life.”

The Misunderstanding , sometimes published as Cross Purpose, is a play written in 1943 in occupied France by Albert Camus. It focuses on Camus’ idea of The Absurd.

 

A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them. Since neither his sister nor his mother recognize him, he becomes a lodger himself without revealing his identity.

 

The play “is a highly subjective presentation by Camus of the human condition as he saw it in the desperate circumstances of 1942-43. It reflects several aspects of Camus's life: he had left Algeria, to which he was deeply attached, leaving his second wife and friends behind; he was depressed with tuberculosis; as well as living under threat of execution as a propaganda agent of the French Resistance.[2] Camus once described Le Malentendu as “the play that resembles me the most”.