Hamadi (alias Mohamed El Boubsi)
Managing director, artistic coordination, programme planning, training, events
Author of his texts adapted for stage, Hamadi has traced over many years a unique project, as a comedian alone on stage. Epics, chants, tales, myths and accounts are the raw materials of his theatrical creation.
Avoiding nostalgia, he introduces in his shows the necessary derision, the accents of caricature and farce, in echo to the ready-made images from the soaps and memories of films. Each of his performances allows us to discover a new angle to his work: an exploration of the word in all possible declinations, unclassifiable and dazzling.
Between 1980 and 1986, he spends his time collecting oral literature in the Rif (North-East Morocco): a fruitful journey gathering over eight hundred pages, hundreds of popular tales, twenty songs of women, proverbs, guessing games and nursery rhymes.
During these years, Hamadi strenuously transcribes and then translates (from the Berber language) into French all this material. He then decides to take over the task of transmitting himself this literature.
Since then he has propagated the richness of the Berber oral tradition through twenty publications, 5 CD of songs and stories, fifteen performances (for young and old) and numerous conferences and encounters.
In parallel to his work as storyteller-actor, Hamadi developed a significant training work for over twelve years with the creation of the School of Storytelling, the first training centre whose main objective is to train professional storytellers.
Passionate of this living form of performing, he writes for theatre, produces (in theatre and in the world of storytelling) and is the artistic director of the maison du Conte in Brussels.
