Mohammed Al Qudwa
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- cinéma de la Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
- Gratuit
- 1h15
3 saisons et 1 corps
What can you give when you’ve lost everything? When you had to leave in a hurry, with no luggage?
Mohammed Al Qudwa is an artist, a poet, a karate champion and an engineering student. At the age of 22, he had already endured five wars in Gaza: in the first one he was just five years old. 3 saisons et 1 corps [3 seasons and 1 body], his first piece, is about a childhood marked already by the sound of bombs exploding, and as a young adult being forced to leave his entire life behind. Alone onstage, he evokes the voices of others, who, like him, experienced the hell of the “humanitarian” corridor of forced evacuation in February 2023. Blending dance, theatre and karate, he dares to say the unspeakable out loud, telling us how the horror of war has changed him – and many others. A “monodrama” about the destruction of a territory and its history, exploring the possibility of hope for the future.
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→ dialogs are in arabic and english with french subtitles
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Biography(s)
Mohammed Al Qudwa is a Palestinian poet, writer and artist from Gaza. A high-level karate athlete on the national team, he is also a computer science student. He leads creative writing workshops in collaboration with several major cultural institutions, such as the Tamer Institute for Community Education in Gaza and the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF) in Egypt.
In 2022, he published his first novel in Arabic, The Final Destination (or Last Destination), as well as several poems that have now been translated into English and French. Since 2025, he has been living in France, thanks to the SAWA SAWA programme, and then as a winner of the PAUSE programme run by the Collège de France. He has been invited to the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Naples Theatre Festival to read his poems, and participated in the Jeunes ESTivants and the Festival d’Avignon in 2025. He was invited to the Théâtre en mai festival in May 2025 to read his poems as part of Radio en mai, the festival’s radio station, and participated in La Semaine des écritures contemporaines du TDB in December 2025.
Credits
Text, performance, and concept: Mohammed Al Qudwa
Directed by: Martha Kiss Perrone and Mohammed Al Qudwa
Dramaturgy: Maëlle Poésy
Music: Anelena Toku
Music collaboration: Waseem Al Sisi and Juliano Abramovay
Dance collaboration: Aurore Giaccio
Lighting design: Sebia Falk in collaboration with Giorgia Tolaini
Set design: Jeanne Knoplioch
French translation: Omaïma Machkour
Residencies in Brazil
Dance collaboration: Ricardo Januário
Assistant and production: Georgia Kirilov
Stage management: Alicia Esteves
Lighting design: Giorgia Tolaini
Portuguese translation: Rawa Al Sagheer
Premiere on May 23, 2026, Passages Transfestival – Metz
Production: Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, National Dramatic Center
Co-production: Nouveau Théâtre Besançon, National Dramatic Center / Passages Transfestival – Metz / NEST, Cross-border National Dramatic Center of Thionville–Grand Est / MA, National Stage – Pays de Montbéliard / Support: Paris L’été / Transversales, Conventioned Circus Stage / Festival d’Automne / Espace des Arts, National Stage Chalon-sur-Saône / La Vapeur, SMAC of Dijon
Acknowledgements: Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde / Les Gémeaux, National Stage / Théâtre Silvia Monfort
The Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne receives support from the PAUSE program, a national emergency reception program for scientists and artists in exile, led by the Collège de France.
Mohammed Al Qudwa is a laureate of the PAUSE program from December 2025 to December 2026. He was also a laureate of the SAWA SAWA program from April to November 2025.
