theater  | salle modulable | running time 1 hr 35 mn | performance in French and Arabic language with French supertitles
presented during les Nuits du Ramadan

thursday 16 september 2010 at 7:30 PM
friday 17 september 2010 at 7:30 PM
saturday 18 september 2010 at 7:30 PM

Sex in the (Arab) City

Lotfi Achour, Anissa Daoud

This piece is a real treat, full of humour and irony, as expressed in its subtitle: Sex in the (Arab) City, an allusion to the well-known American television series. Between channel surfing and sex ed classes, documentary films, love songs, dramas and parodies, the authors literally lift the veil on Love in the Arab-Muslim world … It is a recurring, somewhat anachronistic theme: Arab imagination, which they say is perhaps overly sentimental, has referenced it for centuries, through its many poets as well as the bloggers of today. It starts off like a talk show, with three men and two women, and Love and Sex are presented to us, interspersed with moments of shifting, drifting, hallucinating, skidding and swerving. Endearments are whispered or chanted. Sexual suggestions and comments, too, hard-core, raw, direct.
Hobb Story dares to break taboos, taking on ingrained prejudices and closed minds – redrawing the shape of a new lovers’ bedlam.

dramaturgy Lotfi Achour, Anissa Daoud / with contributions from Raja Farhat, Moez Toumi / assistants to the director Anissa Daoud, Kaïs Zaied / set design Lotfi Achour assisted by Natacha de Pontcharra / music, sound score Jawhar Basti / costumes Basma Dhaouati / sculpture, executin of the set Taher Jedidi/ animations Lotfi Mahfoudh / sound engineer Yassine Akermi / video images Mohamed Maghraoui, Frédéric de Pontcharra, Imed Methenni / video sound Moez Cheikh/ video editor Jean-Marie Lengellé, Zeineb Laroussi, Hana Ben Salah / with Lotfi Achour, Jawhar Basti, Thierry Blanc, Anissa Daoud, Lina Murad

Production les APA (Artistes Producteurs Associés), Tunis. Coproduction the TARMAC de la Villette, Paris / the Festival international de Hammamet / the Théâtre Monnot, Beirut / the Cie Lotfi Achour. With the support of Arcadi / the Institut Français de Coopération, Tunis / the CITF / Culturesfrance.