Under pressure
Country: Tunisia
Production : Center for Dramatic and Performing Arts of Kef
Text : Haifa Boulakbech Kchaou
Dramaturgy and direction : Rayen Karoui
Scenography : Nièzi Messaoudi
Music : Adel Bouallègue
Performance : Mounir Khazri – Mohamed Taher Khairat – Abdelrrahmane Chikhaoui – Maher Touati – Ferdaws Jebali
Language : Tunisian
Duration : 75 minutes
Synopsis :
Mohsen, a stage director, is preparing a politically charged play with a group of amateur actors.
Rehearsals begin secretly in the basement of a cultural center. On the day of the special performance, intended for specialists in the cultural scene, the political police are present in the audience. Amid the chaos, the director is arrested and then mistreated by the police during interrogation. Confronted with verbal and psychological violence, the director throws himself from the fourth floor of the investigation building. From that moment on, a series of interrogations begins with the entire theater team.
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