Le nom du père, a play by Marwa Manai, meets its audience at the Théâtre National Tunisien. Chedly Atallah, artist in residency at the Cité internationale des arts, has written the scenography.
By proceeding to the autopsy of a family, this play invites a deep reflection on man, always unable to question himself in a dynamic of introspection, unable to go towards others, to get of the constraints of himself and his chimeras.
- Chedly Harouni in La Presse
Synopsis:
Seven years after they left home, two brothers and two sisters meet again. The reason: to read the will left by their late father. The ritual must follow his instructions: not a word will be read before the whole family gathers in the ancestral home and dines together in conviviality. They are torn between listening to their father's last words and finding their new life, when a mysterious guest knocks at their door. Dinner is delayed... Secrets resurface, questions multiply and tension builds up. Dinner is delayed... They soon realize that they are trapped in the labyrinth of their memories, unable to free themselves. They try to escape the scathing images that the house awakens. Are they doomed? Dinner is served...
Chedly Atallah (Tunisia) is recipient of the residency program "Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation & Cité internationale des arts".