It Cries Too Loudly

Directed & Choreographed by Dolly Sfeir

Executive Producer Chad Austin

Cinematography and Editing by Pierre Marais

Starring Princess Grace Foundation Honoree Omar Roman de Jesus, Ian Spring, and Annalee Traylor

Devastated and powerless as she watched the 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath from afar, Lebanese American choreographer Dolly Sfeir set about creating a work to express her delicate state of mind. It Cries Too Loudly, is a dance film exploring the overlap between joy and tragedy in her tumultuous home country and the experience of being an emigre.

It Cries Too Loudly received its public premiere after Abingdon Theatre Company’s third annual Virtual Festival of Short Plays