Fifty Years Old Teenager

At a glance

Fifty Years Old Teenager, is a 1996 Kuwaiti play, directed by Fuad Al-Shatti, and starring AbdulHusain AbdulRedha, Dawood Hussein, Zahra Al-Kharji. with a runtime of 204 minutes.

Overview

Fifty Years Old Teenager is an Arabic romantic comedy stage play about a married fifty-year-old doctor whose settled, respectable life is upended the moment he falls for a much younger woman. Overnight he abandons the gravitas of middle age and begins behaving with all the giddiness and recklessness of an adolescent. The production mines rich comedy from the absurdity of the situation while gently probing questions about ageing, self-delusion, and the irrational heart.

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