With mom, Nathalie Doummar pays a vibrant tribute to her Egyptian roots, and more specifically to the sisters, mothers, daughters and cousins of the vast clan to which she belongs. The play takes place in the master bedroom of a suburban bungalow where 12 women take turns at the bedside of the dying patriarch. Made up of antagonism and sorority, laughter and tears, secrets and taboos, behind closed doors tackles the clash of generations and mentalities with as much lightness as relevance. “Through the window of the feminine, intimate and singular, we touch on a universal that is still little told. We shake up the stereotypes in which we confine those we talk about without ever giving them a voice. Their stories, in all their plurality and complexity, beauty and pitfalls, finally exist,” writes journalist Rima Elkouri in the afterword to the book adorned with moving illustrations by Julia GR. Premiered in September 2022, directed by Marie-Ève Milot, mom will be repeated at the Duceppe theatre, at the Just for Laughs festival, from July 14 to 29
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