Formed in 1996 by Sulayman Al-Bassam and Virginie Gervaise, Zaoum is an international grouping of theatre practitioners, musicians and visual artists, dedicated to the production of exciting, challenging and innovative theatre.

Led by an Anglo-Kuwaiti director working alongside a core group of British performers and a French scenographer, the company is in itself a celebration of cultural diversity. Zaoum's projects vary hugely in scale, style and location and have performed to audiences throughout the UK, and at international festivals in France, Germany and Kuwait. ||||

"Poetic, intensely physical, marvellously inventive."
  (The Scotsman, UK)

"Highly unpredictable, brilliantly performed and full of surprises."
  (Liberation, France)

"Sulayman Al-Bassam seems capable of taking on any theatrical convention,   anytime, anywhere. Watch out for the name."
  (The Stage, UK)

"The director's vision resembles nothing I have seen done with Hamlet before he has been able to dramatise our reality with a courageous   directness."
  (Al-Quabas, Kuwait)