Myriam Marzouki
After having simultaneously done university studies that led to a high-level teaching diploma and theatre training at the École du Théâtre National de Chaillot, Myriam Marzouki created, in 2004, the Compagnie du dernier soir. Moving away from the repertoire theatre, she favours, in her projects, adaptations of non-theatre texts that seem to best lend themselves to talking about the world as it is today. Aiming at presenting on stage contemporary and inventive narrative forms, she has staged the text by Jean-Charles Massera United Problems of the Cost of Labour, then Europeana, a Short History of the 20th Century by Patrick Ourednik and, more recently, Leave Us Just Enough Time to Destroy You by Emmanuelle Pireyre. Her shows reflect her commitment to a political theatre playing on ambiguities to “sow confusion” in the spectator, a theatre favouring the language and aesthetics of the stage rather than a purely civic message. Of Tunisian origin, she is interested in the political challenges of her country, as well as that of tourism. It is this latter subject that she tackled in the Poster Session organized by Boris Charmatz in 2011 at the Festival d'Avignon. She performed Invest in Democracy at the Festival, a theatre lecture based on political, press and advertising documents published before and just after the revolution that took place in January 2011.
JFP, april 2013.