Hakim Bah, a committed director

Hakim Bah, a Guinean author and director based in France, returns to his native country for a theatrical creation. His creation of Julie Gilbert's performance is presented on June 13 and 14, 2019 at the Centre Culturel Franco-Guinéen in Conakry.

From his initial training in computer engineering to the Prix RFI Théâtre, Hakim Bah has come a long way:

I studied computer science, but I also wrote poetry, then short stories, and later theater absorbed me.

Author, poet and short story writer, Hakim bah was born in Mamou, Guinea, and grew up between that city and Conakry, before moving to France to study directing and dramaturgy at the Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre.
At the same time, he took up writing residencies in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Morocco and France. He won three awards in 2015 (Prix des Journées de Lyon des auteurs de théâtre, Prix d'écriture théâtrale de Guérande, Prix lycéen des Inédits d'Afrique et d'Outremer) and the Prix RFI Théâtre in 2016. Some of his plays have been read or premiered in France, Belgium, the United States and Africa.

Outrages ordinaires

Julie Gilbert takes us into the world of immigrants, liberating the words of hundreds of faces, both familiar and distant, of border crossers and migrants. Seizing her responsibility as an author, she gives voice to the trajectory of those whom chance has placed on the wrong side of the border, and the disillusioned questioning of those who know they are luckier: I am resolutely on the losing side. Those who have been deprived of the right to leave any trace whatsoever of their defeat.

For his staging, Hakim Bah collaborates with Ivorian set designer Charles Ouitin and three actors: Abass Tapsoba from Burkina Faso, Maud Pougeoise from France and Habibatou Bah from Guinea. He takes his audience on a whirlwind tour of the world of migrants, between revolt, powerlessness and rage, while questioning their strongholds, their retreats and their journeys and echoes.