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Finir en beauté Mohamed El Khatib | | __ |
| | | Mohamed El Khatib wanted to write a play based on interviews with his mother. On February 20, 2012, her death brought it all to an end. On her hospital bed his mother asked him: "No operation or anything? — No, nothing. There's nothing they can do."
The son's inner collapse is embodied in a sporadic narrative in a composite form using diary excerpts, emails sent and received, phone messages, texts, snippets of exchanges with his father, transcribed recordings and videos. The intimate material spans fiction and documentary. His snapshots of life are sensitive evocations of family, country, native tongue, memories and mourning. Alone on stage, Mohamed El Khatib takes this autobiographical story through a moving, but also caustic and funny cartography.
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| "The text Pièce en un acte de décès from which Mohamed El Khatib developed his show was published by Michèle Braconnier. The publication is as elegant as the performance by Mohamed El Khatib. It has been done in a beautiful and inventive way, a fine reflection of the author's intentions."
Jean-Pierre Han, Revue Friction, Impudique pudeur
"This is a story about life, not death, with memories that are joyful, anecdotes at times cruel and mostly funny, painting a portrait of an ordinary working-class family where the children have grown up in a little house bought on credit but with a garden. Mohamed El Khatib has fun telling it, featuring clichés about Arabs in general and immigrants in particular, about voting rights, always promised but never acquired, about slitting sheep's throats in the bathtub, about the childhood friend who converted to Islam, about the imam who sends text messages during the graveside service, holding his cellphone in one hand and the Koran in the other, and about mourning ceremonies as an obligatory ritual. You laugh and then you cry."
Marie-José Sirach, L'Humanité, Récit de la mère morte
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| Opened October 1st, 2014 as part of actOral – festival international des arts et des écritures contemporaines (Marseille). Then tour. Avignon Off 2015. Théâtre de la Cité Universitaire (Paris) September 28- October 23, 2015. Etc.
English translation by Bérénice Paupert.
Text and concept: Mohamed El Khatib. Visual environment: Fred Hocké.
Sound environment: Nicolas Jorio. Created by the collective Zirlib (www.zirlib.fr).
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| Characters : 1 men - Publié en France aux Solitaires Intempestifs et en Belgique par L'L éditions (Bruxelles). - www.solitairesintempestifs.com |
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