Acting

Mariam Al Ghadban

Born 1984-11-20 · Kuwait

A Kuwaiti actress, born on November 20, 1948. She was one of the first two Kuwaiti women besides Mariam Al Saleh to stand on stage in Kuwait. She acted while she was a school student in the play Obedience in the mid-fifties. She worked as a professional actress in the play Falcon of Koraish in the theatrical season 1960/1961. She also participated in many television and radio programs as a director and actress. She joined the People Theater Troupe and the Kuwait Artists Association. She presented one of the most comedic roles in the play Bye Bye London with Abdul Husain Abdul Reda. Her last work was the series Diary of a Retiree (1995). Her fans among the Gulf fans called her "Hababa". She died on June 3, 2004.

Acting credits

8.0

A comedy about an old married man that travels to London with his nephew who does his to save him from exposure to fraud, and being mugged in London, the play also covers some political aspects and projections in addition to social criticism of some of the Arab situations.

Bye Bye London

1982

A married man suffers from the tyranny and tyranny of his wife's mother and its great influence on her, so he tries in various ways to urge his wife to form her independent personality, and get rid of her mother's influence, which may negatively affect their relationship.

Early Bird Gets the Worm

1969

The events take place in a fantasy framework around a disassembled family whose members only care about money, a creature from the planet Mercury comes to it that meets the requests of each individual for the family individually on the condition that he is repaired and his family is circled to become an ideal family to follow.

Sadouh

1989

No synopsis available yet.

الإنسان هو الإنسان

1973

7.0

A social comedy play that sheds light on conscription in Kuwait at the time of the presentation of the play, through the slaves of the fugitive from recruitment, who is arrested and introduced to conscription, and we see what the recruit is exposed to during his presence in the camp.

Enlisted Obaid

1992

No synopsis available yet.

Khamsa Wa Khmisa

1993

5.5

Egyptian socialite Dalal is determined to win over Kuwaiti businessman Abdullah, who’s fallen for Dolly, a Lebanese seamstress. Dalal’s wild schemes to sabotage their romance lead to a hilarious clash of love and cultural quirks.

Also, Hello Dolly

1974

Ali Janah Al-Tabrizi and his follower Qaffa poster

7.0

The play deals with two characters of the Thousand and One Nights, from which the author formulated a separate story to address a specific purpose

Ali Janah Al-Tabrizi and his follower Qaffa

1975

The events revolve around a grandmother who tells her grandchildren an ancient mythical story, through which many old and contemporary social issues are highlighted in order to give life lessons.

Hababa wa Himarat Al Qayila

1987

No synopsis available yet.

حاجز الوهم

1967

No synopsis available yet.

فوضى

1974

The events take place in Kuwait in the 1940s before the advent of oil, and the story of a shy love in the conservative society between Mary and Khalifa, and the obstacles they face.

The Silence

1980

A Kuwaiti family offered the upper floor of their house for rent, then later there was a housing crisis and the children of the family became of marriageable age, and from here the problem of acquiring the upper floor begins, first, with the solidarity of the family members to take out the lessor, and secondly, the conflict between the sons of the same family to acquire the upper floor

With Apricots

1983

No synopsis available yet.

عاصفة الصحراء

1991

No synopsis available yet.

بخور ام جاسم

1969

wait and observe

Be patient and you will see

1965

10.0

No synopsis available yet.

هالو كايرو

1994

6.0

An Old traditional Kuwaiti Family, facing and new wife comes to home from Egypt as home maid, this is when the jealousy start between the old wife and the new maid.