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The Shadow Within That Writes
Show · Thursday, October 29 · 18:00 · Marseille
Promenade robert laffont, 13002 Marseille, France
Invited in 2025 to the Collège de France to deliver his inaugural lecture on the chair The Invention of Europe by Languages and Cultures, Wajdi Mouawad has conceived The Shadow Within That Writes, a stage adaptation where thought becomes theatre. Alone on stage, he carries a moving meditation on writing, exile, memory, violence, and what in each of us resists knowledge. Part conference, part theatre, and part poetry, this performance by one of the greatest authors and directors of our time gives body to a speech of rare intensity, which interrogates as much our relationship…
