Title: The Friend of the Book
Country: Tunisia
Production: Djerba Center for Dramatic and Performing Arts
Text: Iskander Lajmi
Dramaturgy and Direction: Hamza Ben Oun
Scenography and Puppet Making: Habib Ghrabi
Music: Aymen Gabaa
Performance : Salah Chouchane – Amel Boukraa – Nadia Tlich – Abdessalem Hamidi – Dhouha Hajjam – Ali Bouabid – Kilani Zagrouba.
Language : Arabic
Duration : 50 minutes
Synopsis
Nabhan, a computer engineer passionate about books – which he considers his closest friends – finds himself facing a tyrannical King Computer who confiscates all the books in his kingdom and turns his subjects into prisoners of technology.
In a village inhabited by extraordinary cats who preserve their love of reading, Nabhan secretly attempts to save his cultural heritage by transporting his books there. But the King Computer sends an electronic game that bewitches the cats. With the help of a wise cat, Nabhan embarks on a clever adventure to restore books to their rightful place as sources of values, imagination, and knowledge.
