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Djihad Ismaël Saïdi | | DR |
| | | Ben, Reda and Ismaël are three young men from Brussels facing idle lives. They decide to go to Syria in the name of their religion to fight alongside other jihadists. During their tragicomic odyssey that takes them from Schaerbeek to Homs, as well as Istanbul, they discover the reasons that drove each of them to go off, and are forced to face a situation far less idyllic than they imagined.
A comedy above all, Djihad laughs at the clichés in all religions, lifting the silence on all manner of taboos. Truly cathartic, the play reveals onstage our deepest anxieties, our fear of others and what that leads to. The playwright Ismaël Saïdi is determined to break down the walls between communities, aspiring through laughter and tears to create a better way to live together.
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| "The play dares to laugh at everything, from dogmatism to victimization and everyday racism. Declared to be of public interest after the attacks in Paris and the dismantling of a cell in Verviers, Belgium, it has been performed almost daily in front of primary and secondary school students."
Audrey Tilve, Euronews, April 2, 2015
"Beyond its humor and the quality of the text, the success of Ismaël's play is undoubtedly because the Brussels resident knows his subject by heart, having grown up in Schaerbeek, a working-class neighborhood in a northern part of the city. An avid fan of Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo, he was well-raised by his parents and made the right choices."
Jacques Besnard, Slate, August 5, 2015
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| Opened at Espace Pôle Nord in Brussels, December 26, 2014. Since then, on tour in Belgium in schools and theaters through May 2016...
Directed by the playwright. Cast: Reda Chebchoubi, Ben Hamidou /James Deano and Shark Carrera. |
| Characters : 3 men - Editions La Boîte à Pandore |
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