This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Fikri Ould Ali
In the presence of numerous actors interested in cultural affairs and theatrical creation, the city of Al Hoceima attended, on the evening of Saturday December 28, 2024, the presentation and signing ceremony of the playwright “Abriz Ghar Ojna” or “ The Road to Heaven”, which was published at the beginning of this year, by the publications of the Center for Amazigh Research and Studies in the Rif by the writer and doctor Muhammad Benyoussef.
The presentation and signing of this theatrical work, broadcast in the Amazigh language, is part of the activities of the twelfth session of the Al Hoceima Theater Festival, organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Space Foundation for Spectacular Arts and Entertainment. Association Troupe du Rif for Amazighity. Al Hoceima Theater, with the support of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication, Culture Sector.
Since its release, “Abriz Ghar Oujna” has had an important presence on the Moroccan cultural and artistic scene, since it has been celebrated by numerous cultural events, the most recent of which was the presentation and signing ceremony organized at the presence of a certain number of writers and critics interested in Amazigh cultural affairs, on December 17, as part of the activities of the 24th edition of Book Day in Tetouan.
This book, published by the “Seliki Akhawin” printing house in 75 pages in Latin and Tifinagh letters, was previously celebrated during a cultural meeting organized by the Amezian Theater Association at the library room of the Nador cultural complex , Saturday March 30. 2024, in partnership with the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication – The Culture Sector in Nador, in coordination with the Amazigh Research and Studies Center of the Rif.
And always as part of the celebration enjoyed by this new creative book, published with the support of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication, Culture Sector, the Arif Troupe for Culture and Heritage in Al Hoceima , during this season, transformed it into a theatrical performance directed by Dr. Hassan Hamouchi, and performed by Mohamed Al-Maknouzi, Suleiman Aklati, artist Ikram Al-Hejazi, and the scenography of Abdel-Hay Al-Saghroushni.
For reference, the play “April Ghar Ujna”, written by Dr. Muhammad Benyoussef in four scenes, is a kind of synthesis between reality and imagination, and its events revolve around some of the subjective understandings that some try to give to religion and its symbolic authority, and how these people want to perpetuate extremist behavior in social circles on the basis of fabrication granted for divine reward, and to achieve worldly, subjective, personal or factional goals.
The play is a comic embodiment of the most striking contradictions experienced by certain Islamic societies and circles in their relationship with the authority of the “jurist”/the character of the Mukhtar, and how the sacred sometimes becomes, and based on private and subjective interpretations . , a path for laymen and a path paved to make people with limited understanding and thinking (Muhannad’s character) commit crime. The atrocities and the practice of behavior and whims remain a tattoo on the social body.
In this theatrical book, designed by Muhammad Al-Masawy and whose cover was designed by Muhammad Al-Rashdi, the writer Muhammad Bin Youssef attributed a special and exceptional place to the woman (a crescent figure) as the pole where events take place and facts intersect, an embrace for social education, and a symbol of resistance to temptations and destructive and abnormal ideas, whether within society or the basic core of that society what is family.
