Mohamed El Khatib / Patrick Boucheron
Boule à neige
© © Yohanne Lamoulère - Tendance floue ©
© © Yohanne Lamoulère - Tendance floue ©
© © Yohanne Lamoulère - Tendance floue ©
Concept, text and realisation, Mohamed El Khatib and Patrick Boucheron
Stage design, Fred Hocké
Image, Zacharie Dutertre
Artistic collaboration, Vassia Chavaroche
Production director, Sylvia Courty
Press, Nathalie Gasser
Production Collectif Zirlib
Coproduction Coproduction Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie ; Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) ; Le Grand T – Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique ; La Comédie de Saint-Etienne-CDN ; Équinoxe-Scène nationale de Châteauroux ; Points communs, nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise ; La Villette (Paris) ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with La Villette (Paris) ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
Collectif Zirlib is supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire, and accredited by the Ministère de la Culture – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Centre.
With support from Ville d’Orléans
Mohamed El Khatib is an associate artist at Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) and Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie.
Partnership with France Inter
Ridiculous, old-hat, ugly, superannuated? Often perceived as the epitome of bad taste, what about if these “gadgets” and their dancing confetti turned out to reveal much about people, adventures and different universes?
Shifting from documentary theatre to anatomic theatre, the historian Patrick Boucheron and the director Mohammed El Khatib take a painstaking look at the snow globe. In their hands, this modest, eminently kitsch object is made to reveal a myriad of stories raising questions of a more universal nature. After obtaining them from collectors everywhere, the two performers, using a mixture of tenderness and close attention to detail, make these little globes talk, and in doing so reveal a natural history of these worlds that we place under transparent domes. The snow globe is, after all, a theatre. A miniature theatre to be held in the palm of a hand and which is brim-full of different stories.
See also
Mohamed El Khatib La vie secrète des vieux
Mohamed El Khatib furthers his passion for documentary theatre by tackling a subject that he brings from out of the shadows, namely that of eroticism and the love lives of “oldies”. Put together in a daring yet tender way, his new piece explores this theme from the perspective of desire, thereby going against the usual connotations associated with old age.
Talents Adami Theater, Mohamed El Khatib Stand-up
What will it be this time: thunderous applause or icy silence? In Mohamed El Khatib's opinion, the inherently risky nature of stand-up comedy elevates it to a theatrical art in its own right. A framework for expression of all kinds, it clears the path for transgressive laughter, in a cathartic space which brings us all together.