There is notably the Halka, a circular grouping of people around a storyteller who tells a story by dramatizing his narration. The scene takes place in a public square (Jamâa Lafna in Marrakesh for example) to attract more people and thus gain more money. There is also Al Bsat which is also a kind of Halka but with several actors telling a rather funny story intended to make people laugh but which also intended for educational purposes.Soltan Attolba is a kind of theater where, at the end of every year, the top student of Al Karaouiyine University in Fez is given the title “King of students” by his classmates. He should assume this responsibility during 7 days of festivities including the protocol aspect, especially the honorary meeting with the King of Morocco.

 

Finally, Aabidat Rma are troupes of actors whose vocation is to tackle, from various angles, the aspects of the social life. Their performance takes place mainly in the squares of ksours.

Since the independence of Morocco, the national radio has been playing a crucial role in the forming and professionalization of new troupes. The studios of the RTM (Moroccan Radio and Television) became the preferred space of the amateurs of theatre who revived the great successes of the international theatre and interpreted texts produced by Moroccan authors. Several young people, who belonged to this troupe, would later become the leading personalities of the national theater: Tayeb Saddiki, Ahmed Tayeb Laâlj, Mohamed Hassan El Joundi, Mohamed Saîd Afifi and many others founded troupes which are still active.

Today, amateur theatre and university theatre support new recruits through workshops organized over the year. In the middle of the 1980s, the Institute of Dramatic art and Cultural Animation (ISADAC) became responsible of the academic education related to theatre professions.

For further information:

http://www.minculture.gov.ma