Theater - Mickey and the End of the World, or How I Buried My Father

When her father—an Algerian immigrant—passed away, Hannah saw the silences begin to crack. A silence of exile, of a language left untold, of unspoken violence. Who was this man from Algeria whose story she didn’t know?

A taciturn, sometimes brutal father, shaped by humiliation and the demand to keep a low profile. His fear spills over, his shame spreads, and something is passed on despite himself. Within Hannah’s body, the violence continues to live on—in her relationships, in the way she holds herself in the world. Algeria remains there, absent yet omnipresent, like a memory she cannot access. So Hannah pauses. She looks. She tries to put it into words. Perhaps she must bury her father—even before his death—so that something might stop trembling?

Written and directed by Iman Kerroua
Starring Yasmine Hadj Ali, Nathalie Dorion, Raymond Hosny, Iman Kerroua, and Antoine Kobi
Produced by Compagnie Mama Luna
Premiere at Le Liberté.