The Shadow Within That Writes

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 The Shadow Within That Writes, a stage adaptation where thought becomes theatre. Alone on stage, he carries a devastating meditation on writing, exile, memory, violence and what in each of us resists knowledge. Between conference, theatre and poetry, this performance by one of the greatest writers and directors of our time gives body to a word of rare intensity, which questions as much our relationship…