Theatre All audiences, 13 and over fr

Moutoufs

Kholektif Zouf - Jasmina Douieb

Moutoufs, that’s what they called us Moroccans on the playground. Today it makes us laugh, but only today. Especially since we’re not even real “Moutoufs”, just half-“Moutoufs”.
This show is the story of five Belgians who have a Moroccan father. It could have also been the story of five Moroccans who have a Belgian mother. But it isn’t, that’s the point.
All five of them carry around a suitcase of their identity inside which pots and pans fight in duels. They’ve gathered to share their own experiences about being Belgian, but having a Moroccan father; being Moroccan, but not speaking Arabic. At the intersection of two cultures they happily take apart clichés and discuss the freedom of being oneself beyond the matter of social heritage and dictates. Like them, the show is diverse and colorful. It investigates the Moutouf housed in each of them, and could be summed up in the question: where do I go from here?

2018 Critics’ Prize for Best Director
Coup de Coeur Asspropro 2019

The play has this spectacular merit: to show the way to the freedom to be oneself, beyond inheritances and social injunctions.
Catherine Makereel – Le Soir

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Collective writing: Kholektif Zouf
By and with: Myriem Akheddiou, Monia Douieb, Jasmina Douieb, Hakim Louk’man, Othmane Moumen
Directed by: Jasmina Douieb
Set and costume: Renata Gorka
Sound production: Daphné D’Heur
Lighting design: Benoît Lavalard
Video and editing: Eva Giolo
Images used with the permission of Huis Van Alijn, Gent
and Jasper Rigole
Filming in interviews/father videos: Sébastien Fernandez
Assistant director: Alexandre Drouet
Creative consultant: Lara Hubinont
Choreography: Aubéline Barbieux
Set construction: Workshops of the Théâtre de Liège
Technical directors: Christophe Van Hove and Benoit Lavalard
Accompaniment in production and distribution: Artists support

A production by Entre Chiens et Loups.

In coproduction with Le Théâtre de Liège, Le Théâtre Le Public and La Coop vzw.

With the help of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service du Théâtre.

With the support of the COCOF (Commission Communautaire Française), the WBI (Wallonie-Bruxelles-International) in Rabat), Le Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, La Maison de la culture de Marche-en-Famenne, La Maison de la culture de Tournai, Le Centre culturel de La Louvière, D’Art Louane and Le Centre Culturel d’Agdal, Comedrama Théâtre et Culture, Le Festival XS, Shelterprod, taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian federal government’s tax-shelter.

Stage size
Show Duration	1h35
Audience capacity	400
Audience suitability	13 and over
Team on tour	7
Width	10m (8m minium)
Depth	7m (6m minium)
Height	6m (4.5m minimum)
Set up	12h
Breakdown	2h