The legacy of the artist Nabil Mutawakel

Alsir Alsayed

Nothing remains of the artist Nabil Mutawakel as an exceptional creator and a great giver, especially in the field of theater, his great creativity, nor his loyal family, nor his permanent wide smile, nor his noble character, nor only regret and pain, but what remains is our inability as creators and theater people in particular, as we could have, with a little organization and perseverance, and we are the ones who are capable of what we possess of a creative product that has hundreds of consumers, to extend to him the helping hand he deserves.
That an artist of his stature does not find money to complete his treatment after he has progressed towards recovery, and that he is met with a lot of neglect and procrastination from the Passports Department in obtaining a passport for him, as his wife told the journalist Rasha Hassan, is a very costly matter for which we bear responsibility in the first place, we theater people, and even all artists… I am not practicing self-flagellation here, nor am I expressing regret that comes in the form of a late apology, but rather I am drawing attention to the necessity of creating a new path through which we think about confronting life’s transformations, with sorrow and joy, as we, as creative individuals, a union, and federations, can do a lot as our counterparts do in many countries of the world, even without needing other parties. It is not difficult for us, for example, to establish a fund that we call (the Creative Support Fund), which we feed by marketing our creative product in theatrical performances and singing and musical concerts, and allocate its proceeds to meet critical needs such as illness and exceptional critical circumstances such as the destructive war that we are currently living through, and other things that may be included in the regulation that will organize the areas of spending the fund. From here I call on creative individuals, unions, artistic unions, writers’ unions and authors to think about this proposal.

On the creative level, the artist Nabil Mutawakel participated with the theatrical pioneer Fadil Saeed in the plays (The Sweet Half.. We Are Like This.. Eating Aish. Al-Haskaneet.. Uncle Saber.. These People.. Bring Them Back.. My New Fridge), and with the director Emad El-Din Ibrahim in the plays (The Crazy Ward.. Promised by You.. Women’s Parliament.. One Wife Is Not Enough), and with the director Qasim Abu Zeid in the play (Ya Nihna.. Ya Hum) and with the director Magdy El-Nour in the play (Al-Nas Al-Sarranin).

This is in addition to his television works, including the film (The Fragrance of Times) by the director Qasim Abu Zeid.