Asmaa Samlali
+ More info- Live performance
- maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- 1h05
- Pass Latitudes
Hmar Lil – Somnambule
The story began with a piece of good news and a nightmare. The good news was that asylum was granted. The nightmare was that one can never go home.
As a child, listening to the soundtrack of the Pokemon cartoon, Asmaa dreamed of traveling the world. At the age of twenty, she crossed the Mediterranean and obtained asylum in France. When she arrived, in 2017, Pokemon Go was all the rage: perhaps echoing her own journey, Asmaa imagines the other refugees like Pokemons traveling from one shore to the other, through space and time. Hmar Lil (“sleepwalker” in Moroccan Arabic) is her first piece: she evokes her exile, her political choices, her multiple trips to police headquarters, her problems finding a place to live, her love at first sight for the woman “as beautiful as the revolution,” entering the competitions for theatre schools in a language that is not yet her own … Accompanied by the musician Zoé Kammarti, she sings the story of a young queer refugee in French, in Amazigh and in Arabic.
Accessibility disclaimer:
→ Dialogs are in french without subtitles
→ Songs are in french, arabic and amazigh with subtitles
→ Presence of smoke
Avec le soutien des Lieux Culturels Pluridisciplinaires de la Ville de Lille
Biography(s)
ASMAA SAMLALI, written, singer and actress : born in Casablanca in 1996, Asmaa Samlali discovers a passion for theatre and performance in Uzine, an artistic education venue she used to frequent in high school. Noticed by Aurélie Charon and Carolibe Gillet, she takes part in Radio live in 2016, in which she performs her first texts and she appears the following year in the documentary Shakespeare in Casablanca by Sonia Terrab. After arriving in France in 2017, she pursues her training in la classe préparatoire de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne and participates in several projects and workshops as both a writter and a comedian. She starrs in L’Archipel written by D. Lachaud and directed by Jean-Philippe Naas as well as Par la mer (quitte à être noyées) by Anaïs Allais Benbouali. She continues her training, including a professional training around Rébeccas Chaillon’s performance in Théâtre de la Manufacture-CDN de Nancy and with Joël Pommerat on stage writting at the Nouveau Théâtre du Jour in Agen.
ZOE KAMMARTI – composer and live musician : Zoé Kammarti started her artistic learning playing the violin and then the piano. When she got it the CRR de Metz, she added on to her music skills those of theatre, which she learned at the Claude Mathieu school, where she transforms into a Clown, a mask and Viewpoint. Alongside this training she discovered composing and producing music, trying to mix it in with her knowledge of theatrical space. Choosing to be a creator, a soloist and accompanist, it’s in le Lys et le Jasmin, directed by Maera Chouakielle that she tries it for the first time. She went on with the Original Soundtrack of Florent Hill’s first film, Citadelle. She stars in Sillages, where she accompanies Quentin Beaufils and Léo Ricordel, two acrobats. She’s composing the soundrak of the performance Le Figuier – Takia et Colette.
Credits
Text, conception, interpretation : Asmaa Samlali
Composition and live music : Zoé Kammarti
Production : Compagnie À Bout Portant
Coproductions : L’Agora-Scène Nationale de l’Essonne et Théâtre 13
Support and patners : Aide à la résidence de la ville de Paris, dispositif FoRTE de la région Ile de France, aide à la diffusion de la Spedidam, Collectif 12, Tangram-Scène Nationale d’Evreux-Louviers, Festival Fragments, Le Point Ephémère x cheville et le soutien en résidence de la vie brève – Théâtre de l’Aquarium
Projet lauréat de l’aide à l’écriture du Spectacle Musical de l’association Beaumarchais-SACD
