Flagranti is a fiction based on an alarming reality, that of the LGBTIQ+ community in Tunisia.
The idea originally came from the organization Mawjoudin We Exist; “We want to create a Queer play in Tunisia”.
I directly took this project as a challenge and a responsibility.
I chose to show a group of people diverse in age, profile and orientation, connected by an important factor: friendship.
At first, everything seems normal, the audience meets people who live a “normal life”: they study, work and go out in Tunisia.
But it does not take much for everything to shift.
Flagranti is the story of this shift, of this point of no return, where we dive in the universe of police stations, hospitals, brutal interrogations, retrogressive laws and of trivialized injustice.
Stakes are at the same time activist, esthetic, political and societal, as the main question I asked myself was: how to address Tunisia’s biggest taboo and ultimate forbidden act through theatre?
Didacticism was therefore an evident choice to me, as we face collective ignorance around the topic, decades of invisibilization in the media, family and school, but also centuries of demonization of an entire group of people, religiously, morally and legally.