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The shadow within that writes
Show · Thursday, October 29 · 18:00 · Marseille 2e Arrondissement
Mucem, 7 Promenade Robert Laffont
Invited in 2025 to the Collège de France to deliver his inaugural lecture on the chair The Invention of Europe by Languages and Cultures, Wajdi Mouawad drew from it L’ombre en soi qui écrit, a stage adaptation where thought becomes theatre. Performing alone on stage, he offers a moving meditation on writing, exile, memory, violence, and what in each of us resists knowledge. Part lecture, part theatre, and poetry, this performance by one of the greatest authors and directors of our time gives form to a voice of rare intensity, which questions our relation…
