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Nabyl Lahlou (born 1945 in Fes, Morocco) is a Moroccan theater director, author and actor, known for being an innovative theater and film director, and is considered one of the most influential Moroccan theater directors of the 1980s.

Background

He studied theater in Paris at Académie du Théâtre de la Rue Blanche and L'Ecole Charles Dullin, and later taught at Kordj-el-Kifane (Algeria). He wrote plays in both French and Arabic; among his French plays are Ophélie n'est pas morte (Ophelia is Not Dead) (1969) and Schrischamtury (1975), and among his Arabic Les Milliandaires (The Millionaires) (1968), Les tortues (The Turtles) (1970), and Asseyez-vous sur les cadavres (Sit on Corpses) (1974). His first medium length film was Les mortes (The Dead) (1975), while his first feature-length film was Al Kanfoudi (1978).

Theater

Lahlou directed his first play al-Sa"aa in Morocco in 1965, then left to study in France, returning in 1970.

Many of his works modify Shakespeare to reflect post-colonial Morocco. Written in 1968, his play Ophélie n'est pas Morte was influenced from the Shakespearean, with its title being a reference to Shakespeare's Ophelia. Supported financially by the Morocco Ministry of Culture, it was first performed in 1969 by Lahlou's 'University Theater Companies'. Within the play, the two different Shaksphere characters of Hamlet and Macbeth are presented in a micro drama with the characters voluntarily paralyzed and their acting confined by the use of crutches or wheelchairs. His production of al-Salahef (The Turtles) was considered a breakthrough.

Filmography

• Les mortes (featurette,1975)
• Al Kanfoudi (1978)
• Le Gouverneur General de l'ile Chakerbakerben (1980)
• Brahim Who? (1982)
• The Soul That Brays (1984)
• Komany (1989)
• The Night of the Crime (1992)
• The Years of Exile (2002)
• Tabite or Not Tabite (2005)
• Look at the King in the Moon (2011)

References

1. ^ Don Rubin; Ghassan Maleh (1999). The world encyclopedia of contemporary theatre (illustrated, reprint ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 175. ISBN 9780415059329. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
2. ^ Leaman, Oliver (2001). Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film (illustrated ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 487. ISBN 9780415187039. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
3. ":: CENTRE CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE MAROCAIN ::". www.ccm.ma. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
4. "Africiné - Nabyl Lahlou". Africiné (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
5. "Personnes | Africultures : Lahlou Nabyl". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
6. Amine, Khalid; Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetuan, Morocco. "Moroccan Shakespeare: From Moors to Moroccans". postcolonialweb.org. Abdelmalek Essaadi University. Retrieved 2009-06-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. Berrchid, Abdelkrim. imruu ?al-qays f'ba'ri'z (Imruu Al-Qais in Paris), Rabat, Editions Stouki, 1982.
8. Berrchid, Abdelkrim. (Otheil, Horses and Gunpowder), Casablanca: at-taqafa Al-Jadida, 1975. (play was first performed in 1975-6 by theatrical company at-ta'si's al-masrahiya' of Casablanca and directed by Ibrahim Ouarda.)
9. Calderwood, James L. (1983). To be and Not to be: Negation and Metadrama in Hamlet. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231056281. Retrieved June 10, 2009. To be or not to be: Negation and Metadrama in Hamlet.
10. Hélène Cixous; Catherine Clément; Sandra M. Gilbert; Betsy Wing (1987). The Newly Born Woman (illustrated ed.). I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781860641374. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
11. Leaman, Oliver (2003-12-16). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-66252-4.
12. Ilboudo, Patrick G. (1988). Le FESPACO, 1969-1989: les cinéastes africains et leurs œuvres (in French). Editions La Mante.

• Moroccan film producers
• Moroccan male stage actors
• Living people
• Moroccan writers in French
• Moroccan film directors
• 1945 births
• Moroccan screenwriters
• Moroccan male film actors
• 20th-century Moroccan male actors