PLACE, Tamara Al Saadi

Yasmine exits the subway and realizes that the letters around her no longer make sense, no longer have sound. It happens just like that, without explanation. To be able to read again, she will need to reclaim her past. This life stretched across an impassable bridge between Iraq and France, she lives it as a painful oxymoron. So she will be double: an Iraqi self and a French self to be reconciled. A fragmented story progressing from anecdotes to symbols in an extremely minimalist stage design, populated by chairs and sand, symbols of longing and absence. With tenderness and an ounce of rage, this intimate narrative bears witness to a quest for identity within the mechanics of assimilation, a struggle to find her place.

Text and direction: Tamara Al Saadi

With Mayya Sanbar, Marie Tirmont, Françoise Thuriès, Roland Timsit, Yasmine Nadifi, Ismaël Tifouche Nieto, David Chausse and a child

Artistic collaboration: Justine Bachelet and Kristina Chaumont

Lighting: Nicolas Marie

Sound: Fabio Meschini

Set design: Alix Boillot

Costumes: Pétronille Salomé

Choreography: Sonia Al Khadir

Technical concept: Jennifer Montesantos

Stage management: Jennifer Montesantos and Elsa Sanchez Production management: Elsa Brès

Production and public relations: Coline Bec