"Amour" by Nour Riahi
Experts who accompanied Nour Riahi: Leila Soliman (Egyptian playwright), Samia Amami (Tunisian scriptwriter and playwright) and Narjess Ben Ammar (actress).
L'Art Rue
Nour Riahi, aged 17, had begun a process of introspection through writing, questioning the world through the prism of her environment, her experiences, her dreams, her aspirations and her teenage angst.
During the last edition of Dream City, in 2017, she worked with Laila Soliman on the ‘Superheroes’ project. This creation features children and teenagers with superhuman powers. The work questioned the difficulty of surviving in a hostile and violent environment that oppresses differences.
This residency, which lasted almost a year and was hosted by L'Art Rue, gave her the opportunity to perfect her techniques and deepen her vision and ideas.
To enable her to familiarise herself with aesthetically demanding working methods, Nour was accompanied by the Egyptian playwright Laila Soliman. As a result, she worked on a theatrical text that tackles and questions five themes - social, political, everyday and intimate - that preoccupy her.
Her monodrama deals with religious fundamentalism, death, freedom of conscience, the separation between religion and everyday life (between the private and public spheres) and, finally, teenagers' relationship with life, torn between the desire to live, the quest for the absolute and the weight of society.
Accompanied by Laila Soliman and supervised by Narjess Ben Ammar and Samia Amami, Nour Riahi's writing work led, in the first stage, to public readings before being programmed for the 2019 edition of the Dream City festival...
Practical information
From March 2018 to March 2019 at L'Art Rue
