Kenza Berrada
+ More info- Live performance
- salon de la maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- 1h
BOUJLOUD (l’homme aux peaux)
Boujloud is a character in a Moroccan rite: wearing bloody sheepskins, he is the incarnation of what is taboo, transgression, unspoken. Kenza Berrada also wears different layers of skins, through which she revives words about rape.
Boujloud is an ancestral rite performed in a region of Morocco the day after a sheep is sacrificed- Aïd el-Kebir, in which legend says its origin is divine retribution. A man is said to have abused women in a place deemed sacred, and he is transformed into a human animal. Kenza Berrada, a Moroccan stage director, asked several women of her generation what the word consent meant to them. One of them, Houria, dared to evoke something no one else had dared to speak of in other stories. “I didn’t think my story would interest anyone,” she said. To counteract this awful sensation, Kenza Berrada created BOUJLOUD, l’homme aux peaux (BOUJLOUD, the man with the skins), including all the appropriate words: the victim, the aggressor, the witnesses, those who knew and those who didn’t want to know … and finally, the women who knew, because they too had experienced sexual abuse.
On the 14th, the show will be followed by an exchange with the artistic team, led by François Frimat, philosopher and president of the festival.
- Accessibility information :
Presence of spoken texts in French, Arabic and Moroccan
Presence of texts written in French
Surtitled show
With the support of Onda – Office national de diffusion artistique
Biography(s)
Kenza Berrada discovered theatre at the age of 10 by playing a rhinoceros in Ionesco’s play of the same name. More than twenty years later, she covers her body with sheepskins in «Boujloud» (the man with the skins), her first play as an author. This one on the scene addresses the subject of abuse and incest, through the concrete questions that are asked to those who decide to break the silence and speak: how are we heard? Is there a “good time” to say and be heard?
She collaborates with the English author and director Alexander Zeldin, an artist associated with the National Theatre of London and the Odeon Theatre in Paris. She is notably his playwright and collaborator in the direction of his latest creation: A death in the family (Théâtre de l’Odéon, 2022). Kenza Berrada lives and works between France and Morocco where she was born and lived until she was 17 years old.
Credits
From and with Kenza Berrada
Sound Kinda Hassan
Video Maud Neve
Light Rima Ben Brahim
Choreography support Elsa Wolliaston, Annabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron
Exterior look Raphaël Chevènement
Production Kumquatperformingarts
Coproduction Institut Français du Maroc, Rabat; Goethe Institut, Rabat-Marrakech, Morocco; GMEM, Centre national de création musicale, Marseille (FR); Domaine de Lorient, Saint-Péray (FR); OXFAM Morocco; Le Cube, Art Center, Rabat (Morocco) ; MACAAL, Al Maaden Museum of African Contemporary Art, Marrakech (Morocco)
Support Institut Français, Paris (FR); Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
