From January 28 to February 7, the Tarmac is played in Paris “Macbeth: Leila and Ben – A Bloody History”, a very free and Tunisian adaptation of Shakespeare’s text, directed by Lotfi Achour, Jawhar Basti and Anissa Daoud, announced a press release.
This play transposes the work of Shakespeare in the historical and political context of contemporary Tunisia of the last 30 years by ending at the dawn of the revolution of January 14.
By mixing theatrical fiction, puppets, songs and documentary work, the show uses the pretext of the Shakespearean fable to question the Arab political imagination and the share of individual responsibility in the installation of the dictatorship and in its perpetuation. Filmed interviews, public figures and intellectuals who express themselves, according to their specialty and their journey on the question of our relationship to power.
It is time for questions, whether political, societal or aesthetic in this crucial moment for the future of our societies. A reflection which is not at all foreign to the Western public which is itself in search of a social and political model which puts the human more at the center.
