MADAME M.
- 2019
Heger is a journalist working for an online publication.
Presumably, she is independent, diligent and ambitious.
The two meet when a news article leads to a tragedy… “The family there is the locus of my investigation… The mother cell, the host cell, the place of assurance, and the safe bet become –here- the space of a destructive earthquake.
The show tends to make a radioscopy of this implosion that is nothing but the reflection of the serious crisis that the country is going through right now.
This show is not a political show in the literal sense of the term.
I try to decorticate and interrogate today’s Tunisia, 8 years after the revolution. My perspective is that of a young woman who was 20 years old at that moment and through the perspective of these trapped 5 young people.
What is their destiny? Why didn’t they escape? But to where anyway… ? »
Essia Jaïbi
Actors: Jalila Baccar, Mouïn Moumni Mouna BelHadj Zekri, Imène Ghazouani, Hamza Ouertateni
Voice-over: Nesrine Moualhi, Essia Jaïbi
Sound: Sabri Bouazizi
Text: The collective
Costumes: Selima Ben Chedli and Farouk Hazami
Makeup: Mariem Baccar
Production: Familia Productions
“An hour and a half, during which time, the spectators witnessed the birth of a new theatre, different, based on intelligent provocation and a perfectly controlled excess.”
MISK, Shayma Laabidi
“A goldmine of inventiveness, generosity and humor. A praise of the courage and rebellion that it is good to see in these times of material and spiritual struggle. Not to be missed!”
Femmes et réalités – Nadia Ayadi
“Madame M. challenges what we thought was simple… destroys our preconceived ideas and breaks what we thought we had built and what we had inherited.”
Al anwar, Wafa Hammami
“Dynamic, precise, and conscientious, Essia Jaibi frees herself from codes, slips references and even plays them, in a totally assumed act, sometimes playful and most of the time very creative!”
La Presse, Asma Drissi
En Bref,
“By criticizing mediocrity, the demonization of the other and the lack of depth in the subjects covered by the media, Jaibi challenges her audience on their own responsibility in a audacious and gracious staging. […] Influenced by the codes of street art, Essia Jaibi begins, from the beginning, a game of seduction with her audience and embarks them on a unique sensory journey. By thwarting even the notion of spectator, Jaibi invites the spectators to be both inside and outside the story.”
WMC
“Essia Jaibi redistributes the cards and redraws the guidelines for the staging. Interaction is done by using our senses. The exploration is a spectacle, a little like a Broadway musical. […] From opera to music inspired by the music used in the suspense films of the 1970s, and including Gloria Gaynor’s famous “I am what I am”, music imposes the rhythm and spirit of the acts that follow. Essia Jaibi pushes the interactive experience to the three-dimensional end. The parallel with cinema is not far away; the experience is much more interesting! We are quickly inhabited by this unique family. We get caught up in the game fast.”
Femmes de Tunisie, Raouia Khedher,
