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Written by Allal EL Alaoui
Acting
in Morocco is not new .It is related to Halka; actors gathering people around them
usually in a cirle and you can listen to this kind of stories right in the
heart of Marrakech ; a place called
Jamaa El Fna square .Now,some Moroccan towns like Mekness invite the same Halkas just to seduce
consumers because it is about buying goods and at the same time having pleasure.
Right
after the independance of Morocco, some Moroccan students went to France to
study theatre just like Taib Essadiki,Chafik Shimi and more others .
Others prefered to go to Egypt or Syria because of patriotic or nationalistic
reasons .Any way, some forms of theatre
have been known in Morocco ;although in general Arabs already refused
theatre in the past because its dareness to blasphemy .
After
Cairo ;Demascus,and Baghdad and there comes Rabat creating a new establishmement called ISADAC, a french word meaning ; institure of
theatre of dramatic studies which is apparently training, and urges to study and research
in all areas of theater. It is created by decree No. 2.83.706 of 18 January
1985, under the Ministry of culture in Morocco.
One of its
objectives is to train professional actors and introduce them to theatre and
cinema world.yet,ironically its actors are lost in cafés of major towns in
Morocco just like Café Terrace in Rabat ;
which is itself becoming a commercial café meeting .There are other places that
actors and actresses usually meet and discuss the market of jobs just like La
Ruche, Halinka, Triangle Rouge in Rabat,la comédie in Fès and café de la France
in Casablanca .
According to
Hicham El Wali and Said Ait Baja, recently interviewed in Al Oula TV,they state
that the position of actors in Morocco is critically bad and it is getting
worse, because first the jobs are findless and even if there is a job ,
excecutif producers pay them badly (see the famous 2M series called – AL Majdoub
- in which Hicham EL Wali has worked in and appealled to tribunal the producer himself .The production company of Al Majdoub has
declared its fraud and it can not really pay all actors . In the past, ISADAC
was a seducing place for young comers .However now , it really becomes
empty proscenium arch ; producing only unemployed actors,states Said Ait Baja .ISADAC achieved
nearly 1000 adherents before and in 2012 only 350 which is a considerable
decrease in number.
Still , girls in
the world of theatre namely in movies are confronting sexual abuse not denying
that some of them accept the offer willingly just to get a part in a movie or
theatre .Some students in ISADAC convey strange behaviours of ISADAC teachers
as to ask them for sex ,but this fact is not yet confirmed .
Either what
Mahmoud Frites has recently conveyed
about the decline of Art in Morocco or the melancoly of actors already lost in
pubs, expensive cafés and hotels ,states Khalid Didane in his recent play called
– Hawlasa – Acting is still a passion for many and Moroccan actors are going
through painful moments only theatre and cinema-goers know this secret. In some
way,Moroccan actor becomes more melancolic than Hamlet who confronts not only a
« corrupt king » but too many nasty nature elements.
The ISADAC
Admission to the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art and
Cultural Animation is done by competition open to candidates aged 17 to 23
years, holders of bachelor of secondary education or a recognized equivalent.
Students of foreign
nationals may be admitted, subject to availability, on the same terms.
Their applications must reach the direction of ISADAC
through the competent department of the Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs
of their countries
FONCTIONS
Institut Supérieur
d'Art Dramatique et d'Animation Culturelle est une école nationale spécialisée
dans la formation des cadres supérieurs dans les métiers du théâtre :
Formation de base
Interprétation et
jeu : Théâtre, Télévision et cinéma
Formation en option
Mise en scène,
dramaturgie et administration théâtrale
Formation de base
:
- Scénographie, décor
et technique de la scène .
Formation en option
:
- Marionnettes, costumes,
éclairage et son
Formation continue
Perfectionnement et
spécialisation des professionnels des arts du spectacl
« Suit
the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance,
that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from
the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to
hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn
her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure »
Shakespeare
