Mohamed Bourouissa

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What's there to laugh about in a prison context? This is the starting point chosen by Mohamed Bourouissa for his first stage creation. Prison as an outlier of society is a recurring theme in his work as a visual artist. The play plunges us into the daily life of a young woman who goes through the prison experience, allowing herself to be transformed by the touching and tender characters she meets there.

Based on workshops held in a prison, Mohamed Bourouissa aptly stages these women's voices, without pessimism or judgment. Using humor as a form of resistance and distancing from difficult contexts, the play, written by Zazon Castro, is universally moving. Going beyond questions of justice and morality, it is above all about accompanying a woman on her life's journey, whose moments of joy and difficulty could be our own. A one-woman show that thwarts stereotypes and plays down the subject in an unpredictable, funny way.

Direction, musical conception and set design: Mohamed Bourouissa

Text and artistic collaboration: Zazon Castro

Actress: Lou-Adriana Bouziouane

Sound: Mohamed Bourouissa, Christophe Jacques, Sylvain Jacques Light: Vincent Chrétien

Coordination: Marine Dury

Production: T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National Coproduction: Festival d’Automne à Paris, in partnership with LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut (Villeneuve-d’Ascq); Centre pénitentiaire de Lille Loos Sequedin / l’Unité Sanitaire du Centre pénitentiaire de Lille Loos Sequedin – CHU Lille

Thank you to: Mehdi Anede, Sofiane Boohafs, Marlène Célestin, Sébastien Delot, Julie Escure, Maddalena Maniago, Margot Nguyen, Gabrielle Otton, Marie-Amélie Senot, Héléna Tejedor, Claudine Verschelle and especially all the participants in the theater workshop.

This work is produced as part of the Mondes Nouveaux artistic creation support program.

Played at :

• L’Azimut, Antony- Châtenay-Malabry

• Points communs- Théâtre 95, Cergy (Festival d’Automne 2024)

• Théâtre d’Orléans- Scène nationale

• Théâtre du Rond-PointParis (Festival d’Automne 2024)

• Théâtre de GennevilliersCentre Dramatique National (Festival d’Automne 2023)

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