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They blend with the sand child, colouring and emphasising her life story. They are presented via their CVs and brief personal statements. The new narrators are the sand child’s seven sisters, who appear in the performance as seven present-day women – seven living talents. In the performance The Sand Child™, Hotel Pro Forma adds other narrative voices, all of which relate the story of the sand child in their different ways. As an adult, the actions and personality of the main character change via alternating narrative voices that provide different versions of the same life. A child is born as a girl but, in accordance with her father’s will, is brought up as a boy among seven sisters. In the writer Tahar Ben Jelloun’s two books The Sand Child and The Sacred Night the same life story is portrayed in many guises. It is formed by the outer world but retains is basic material as substance.

The sand child is the recurring figure in Hotel Pro Forma’s new performance. In a new house with white rooms we meet the sand child. "His idea was simple, difficult to realise, to hold on to in all its power: The child to be born will be a boy, even though it is a girl."Ī house and a book. Singers: Mark Linn, MC Jabber, Harun Ates Texts: Tahar Ben Jelloun, Michael Valeur and other texts. Performers: Maria Rich, Aino Junka, Anne Christine Bech, Christine PettersenĬoncept, installation, direction: Kirsten Dehlholm and Ralf Richardt Strøbech

A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.Recorded at Mogens Dahl Institute, Copenhagen Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies.

Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law.