Nathalie Doummar’s “Mama” behind closed doors will open Season 50 on Duceppe.
This is the second play from Duceppe’s author residency to be presented at the theatre.
In a staging by Marie-Ève Milot, playwright and actress Nathalie Doummar, who will also star in Mama, offers a feminine camera freely inspired by the vibrancy of one’s family, “where everyone is bigger than life”. It underscores the desire for emancipation, like the desire to belong to their culture of origin, that somehow coexists in the hearts of Arab migrant women.
In the master bedroom of a bungalow, three generations of women take turns at the bedside of the dying patriarch. Days and nights follow one another while the old man holds on. The women in his life at his bedside measure one another, confide in one another, challenge one another and laugh too. Together these sisters, mothers, daughters and cousins will reconnect with the strength of the clan, the sweetness of solidarity and the power of female resilience.
The play Mama is driven by an impressive cast of 13 actresses including Karina Aktouf, Lamia Benhacine, Nicole Doummar, Sharon Ibgui, Ambre Jabrane, Aïda Nader, Wiam Mokhtari, Mireille Naggar, Natalie Tannous, Mireille Tawfik, Leïla Thibeault-Louchem and Élisabeth Sirois, as well as an actor: Igor Ovadis.
Mama will be presented at the Jean Duceppe Theater on Place des Arts from September 7th to October 8th, 2022.