Swobodin v Brně

Yesterday, I went to the movie theater Le Mondial in Tunis to see the Raouf Ben Yaghlane’s one man show Nâabar walla ma nâabarshi (Shall I express or not).
I don’t generally talk about my daily activities, but the play was such amazing! It deals with Freedom of Speech, some of taboos (yes, just some) and problems related to our society: housing, standard of living, jobless, people relationship, transport, bureaucracy, corruption, mentality, woman freedom, hypocrisy, Democracy, mass media, education, psychology, … The topics were well treated, with satire, irony and frankly.
Also, no swears or “shocking” words were used: Ben Yaghlane has proceeded with a clean high quality fine intellectual language, sharp and funny; however, he can not in anyway play the comic funny buffoon, neither improvise in spite of the public comments and suggestions. But I laughed a lot for a long! Not because of his coming acting, but because of the sick humor and of the text, so fair and so expressive. In fact I realized that I have laughed for Ben Yaghlane and at myself, as, being Tunisian, I face those problems everyday.
Thank you Raouf for your show! It helped a lot to review many things that almost nobody has ever thought of talking about.
 
Some memorable Quotes (Sorry for the translation)
When, in the bus, someone tramps my foot, I apologize and say “Sorry sir, for my foot came under yours”.
I can tell you whatever you want, journalist, but just don’t publish my name; here’s a picture of someone … who died a few time ago.
How can critics be constructive? If you criticize a monkey and tell him “You are a monkey”, does he care? (…) Sometimes, you need to tell to the dog “you are a human”.
A friend of mine knows everything, but can not do anything! The only time that people were happy about him was when he died.
When I was child and used to walk on 4, they used to attach my foot; but the neighboor’s dog was unleashed, freely barking.

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