The Festival blows out its third candle in the ochre city

With the opening: a unique show entitled "la Halqa", a ritual revisited this year under the artistic direction of Hassan El Fad, linking the oral tradition of the ochre city and the ingenuity of the Moroccan artist and his international counterparts. Under the uninterrupted applause of an audience of different ages and from various backgrounds, a range of Moroccan and foreign comedians took to the stage, in a most festive atmosphere, to present, with professionalism and always in the manner of the greats, their latest burlesque shows, thus giving festival-goers a foretaste of the other shows scheduled throughout this new edition. The opening session of this festival was therefore designed to pay a vibrant tribute to Moroccan traditions in the form of a transposition of popular theatre to contemporary theatre. It is in this sense that Moroccan, French, a Quebecois, and an Ivorian comedia…