{{Short description|Play by Wajdi Mouawad}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox play | name = Incendies | image = Incendies_(pièce_de_Mouawad)_au_théâtre_Lise-Guèvremont.JPG | caption = Nawal's mother in a 2012 performance at the Lise-Guèvremont theatre, Montreal | writer = Wajdi Mouawad | characters = Simon Marwan<br />Jeanne Marwan<br />Nawal Marwan | genre = Tragedy<ref>{{cite book|title=Roberto Esposito|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-ZhDwAAQBAJ&dq=incendies+play+%22tragedy%22&pg=PA219|page=219|isbn=9781438470368|date=25 June 2018|last1 = Viriasova|first1 = Inna|last2 = Calcagno|first2 = Antonio}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Narrative, Emotion, and Insight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZXm1NE1NxoC&dq=incendies+2011+%22tragedy%22&pg=PA155|page=155|isbn=9780271048574|date=2011|last1 = Carroll|first1 = Noël|last2 = Gibson|first2 = John}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Myth and Emotions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjI9DwAAQBAJ&dq=incendies+wajdi+%22tragedy%22&pg=PA326|page=326|isbn=9781527505094|date=6 November 2017|last1 = Lipscomb|first1 = Antonella|last2 = Losada|first2 = José Manuel}}</ref> | setting = | subject = | premiere = 2003 || place = | orig_lang = French }}

'''''Incendies''''' is a 2003 play by Wajdi Mouawad.<ref name="amazon1">{{cite book|title=Scorched (9780887547607): Wajdi Mouawad: Books |isbn=0887547605 |last1=Mouawad |first1=Wajdi |year=2005 }}</ref> The play was translated into English as '''''Scorched''''' by Linda Gaboriau and was published in 2005 by Playwrights Canada Press.

The play was based on parts of the life of the Lebanese communist militant Souha Bechara.<ref name="Holstun">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/antigone-becomes-jocasta|title=Antigone Becomes Jocasta: Soha Bechara, Résistante, and Incendies |last=Holstun |first=Jim |date=Fall 2015 |accessdate=19 July 2017 |work=Mediations vol. 29, no. 1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Film/Feb/02/Seeing-yourself-re-made-as-fiction.ashx#axzz1bmmQmXor|title= Seeing yourself re-made as fiction|access-date= 2019-04-13|archive-date= 2013-09-16|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130916060318/http://dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Film/Feb/02/Seeing-yourself-re-made-as-fiction.ashx#axzz1bmmQmXor|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://electronicintifada.net/content/lebanese-civil-war-explodes-screen-incendies/10002#.TqaG0rIXKdA|title=Lebanese civil war explodes screen Incendies|date=24 May 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hollywoodprogressive.com/incendies/|title=Incendies|access-date=2019-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129181935/http://hollywoodprogressive.com/incendies/|archive-date=2011-11-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> Charlotte Facet notes that Mouawad met with Bechara before writing the play, but adds that some of the material is adapted from Randa Chahal Sabag's film work on and with Bechara,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mouawad |first1=Wajdi |title=Incendies |date=2018 |publisher=Leméac |location=Montreal |isbn=978-2-7609-36188 |page=145}}</ref> while noting that many of the characteristics of Bechara are divided among the main characters including Jeanne and Simon, rather than Nawal alone.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mouawad |first1=Wajdi |title=Incendies |date=2018 |publisher=Leméac |location=Montreal |isbn=978-2-7609-36188 |page=146}}</ref>

It was the second part of a thematically-related, but not strictly sequential, trilogy of plays about characters of Middle Eastern origins confronting family secrets, preceded by ''Tideline (Littoral)'' and followed by ''Forests (Forêts)''.<ref>J. Kelly Nestruck, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/mouawad-fails-but-in-an-interesting-way/article788084/ "Mouawad fails, but in an interesting way"]. ''The Globe and Mail'', July 20, 2009.</ref>

==Plot== ''Incendies'' follows the journey of twins Jeanne (Janine in the English translation) and Simon, as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life.<ref name="amazon1"/> When Jeanne and Simon Marwan lose their mother, Nawal, they are instead left with a difficult mission that sends them on a journey to the Middle East in pursuit of their tangled roots and a long-lost brother.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/plotsummary {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=May 2022}}</ref>

==Awards== The 2007 production at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including Best Play and Best Director (for Richard Rose).<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/scorched-best-play-at-toronto-s-dora-awards-1.636805 ] </ref> The production has been remounted several times and went on a cross-Canada tour in 2008&ndash;2009.<ref>[http://www.tarragontheatre.com/season/0809/scorched/ ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825054153/http://www.tarragontheatre.com/season/0809/scorched/ |date=August 25, 2009 }}</ref>

==Film version== ''Incendies'' was adapted into a 2010 film of the same title by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, and Lubna Azabal. It was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

==Other productions== A 2024 production for Montreal's Théâtre Duceppe starred Neil Elias and Sabrina Bégin Tejada as Simon and Jeanne.<ref>Élise Jetté, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2119450/sabrina-begin-tejeda-neil-elias-jumeaux-incendies-duceppe "Sabrina Bégin Tejeda et Neil Elias : les « nouveaux jumeaux » d’Incendies"]. Ici Radio-Canada, November 12, 2024.</ref>

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