Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam.

"UR", the latest offering from the mind of Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam, will premiere at the Residenz theater in Munich today. The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), one of the main contributors to the play, said that the play traverses time with a captivating agility. The drama moves back and forth between the eve of Ur's destruction in 2000 BC, and the year 1903, which marks the arrival of European archaeologists to Mesopotamia, then forward again to our recent present, the year 2015, marking the brief, yet destructive passage of ISIS, to finally jump to the year 2035 with a coup de theatre in the finale.

At the heart of the dramaturgy are questions of cultural memory and oblivion that transpire through the series of events and are embodied in the UR's main role, Nin Gal, goddess daughter and governor of UR. UR is a co-production between the Residenz theater, Al-Bassam's Sabab Theater and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).-KUNA