Spectacle : Somnambule/Hmar Lil

The story begins with good news and a nightmare. The good news is having been granted asylum, and the nightmare is no longer having the possibility of returning home.

In Hmar Lil (“sleepwalker” in Arabic), Asmaa speaks and sings of her life as a young refugee, caught between nightmare and reality. Between her trips back and forth to the prefecture, her housing problems, the Arab Spring, and her sudden infatuation with someone “as beautiful as a revolution,” Asmaa dreams of becoming an actor and imagines rituals to heal her wounds.

Text, concept and performance : Asmaa Samlali
Composition, live music and sound engineering : Zoé Kammarti
Dramaturgy : Karima El Kharraze
Lighting design and operation : Myriam Adjallé
Set design : Shehrazad Dermé
Video : Samir Ramdani
Collaboration on the staging : Virgile L. Leclerc

Production : Compagnie A Bout Portant - Pauline Delaplace
Co-production : L'Agora-Scène Nationale de l'Essonne and Tangram-Scène Nationale d'Evreux-Louviers
Supporters and Partners : Collectif 12, Théâtre 13, Festival Fragments, Théâtre de Sartrouville, CENTQUATRE – Paris, Le Zef - Scène nationale de Marseille, Le Point Ephémère x Cheville and the residency support of La Vie Brève – Théâtre de l'Aquarium
Project awarded grant for the writing of the Musical Show by the Beaumarchais-SACD association