Artistic Director: Jean-Baptiste Demarigny
With: Aït-Addi Mohamed, Boujaada Jillal, Demarigny Jean-Baptiste, Mhaireg Fatima, Talemsi Jalila, Vansimpsen Jeremiah, and the artistic participation of Said Ait Baja
Show duration: 1:30
Show for all public, originally scheduled for outdoors, interpreted in several languages (french, Arabic dialect and classical Arabic).
Spectacle created with the support of FezFrench Institute, Agadir French Institute, the French Institute of North, the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the French Embassy in Morocco and the General Council of Savoie.
The Show :
One summer evening in a village in the Atlas. In the wake of a party card which turns short, a young man was forced to leave the village. He left for the city, where he finds himself caught in the undertow of individual and collective lives, for which his experience is a little baggage. In a meeting to another, it's a country that appears, in the complexity of a history between noise and silence.
Note of intent
If we chose for our history to keep a classically Moroccan structure is that it seemed present, in symptomatic, one of the key issues that addressed the Moroccan culture: how two worlds coexist? The village, on the one hand, where everything has its place, or, more accurately, it's the place where everyone holds that it is identity and that of the city, on the other hand, where zero place nor identity is a foregone conclusion. So, this young man's quest is coupled she almost without his knowledge, a quest for identity, which is that of modernity.
However, if we chose to focus primarily on the establishment of a plot full of emotions and excitement, it seemed essential that our show, despite the complex issues it proposes to address, can be seen and appreciated by the general public.
Artistic Note
We started working from improvisations. This meant, first, to create a framework and aesthetic imagination, which were born sequences that have formed this show. Various cinematographic works, artistic and literary material was used in the preparation of the framework. But as our show is to Moroccan society, but also in the observation of the latter that the actors have drawn the matter gesture, situations and characters that we were needed. We then worked with the actors on a drama for the action: how to stage action and speech (rather than a text beforehand), meaning and the story are born?
Through the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts and Entertainment Cultural Rabat, we met many actors.
The artistic team is now composed of four Moroccan actors and two french actors and a director.
Press Revue
Article in french, du Journal Hebdo, In connection with work-in-residence at Fes, in February 2007.
Artistic team
Our Partners
With the support of the General Council of Savoie and common Savoy, we looked to Morocco for new partners to form the artistic team and set up a tour of two months (April and May 2007) in the country.
We got the support of the Service for Cooperation and Cultural Action of the French Embassy, and the network of French Cultural Centre. French Institutes of Tangier, Fez and Agadir welcomed us for a work-in-residence of four months (from December 2006 to March 2007).
The Moroccan and French associations have also supported: in Savoy Theatre, the Committee for Erfoud (Chambery), associations Agir Ensemble (Marrakesh) and Wirmetz (Tiznit), as well as the Company Theatre Daba (Rabat).
Tour in Morocco
Dates: March 22 to May 31, 2007
Première : March 22 in the Agadir French Institute.
Places of performances: We have proposed to the French Cultural Centre to purchase the show for a decentralized tour in small towns and villages within the scope of their cultural activity.
Création à l'Institut Français d'Agadir le 22 mars.
Tiznit le 26 mars.
Institut Français de Fès le 6 avril.
Taza le 8 avril.
Institut Français de Marrakech le 26 avril.
Institut Français de Rabat-Kenitra le 4 mai.
Institut Français de Tanger le 23 mai.
Tétouan le 25 mai.
Chaouen le 27 mai.
Ksar le 29 mai
Larrache le 31 mai.