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Jalila Baccar (; born 1952) is a Tunisian playwright and actor.
Jalila Baccar
at BFI
Profile of Baccar on Familia's Facebook page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baccar, Jalila 1952 births Living people Tunisian dramatists and playwrights Tunisian women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Tunisian actresses 21st-century Tunisian actresses 20th-century Tunisian women writers 20th-century Tunisian writers 21st-century Tunisian women writers 21st-century Tunisian writers Actors from Tunis Writers from Tunis
Jalila Baccar (; born 1952) is a Tunisian playwright and actor.Early life and education
Baccar was born inTunis
Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...
on 23 November 1952. She became interested in drama while at school.
Career
When she graduated from school she joined a regional theatre company inGafsa
Gafsa (; ; ') is the capital of Gafsa Governorate in Tunisia. With a population of 120,739, Gafsa is the ninth-largest Tunisian city and is 335 km from the country's capital, Tunis.
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, an oasis and mining community in the south-west of Tunisia. She and the company's co-director tried to modernise the company but met with resistance both from their fellow actors and from the authorities. They moved back to Tunis in 1976 and established their own company, Almasrah al-jadid: The New Theatre, the first independent professional theatre company in Tunisia.
In 1993 Baccar and Jaïbi established a new company, Familia. Their play ''Junun'' (''Dementia'') was staged at Avignon
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in the 2002 Festival.
In 2003, she won the SACD Prize for Francophonie
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for ''Araberlin''.
Their play ''Amnesia'' "which details all the ills of Tunisia under the now defunct regime, with its nepotism and corruption, economic hardships and police surveillance" was staged in Tunis in 2011, and then at the National Theatre in Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
, France.
In 2014, Baccar and Jaïbi sponsored the 76th class of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre de Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
.
Marvin Carlson describes Baccar as "generally recognized as one of the leading women playwrights and performers in Tunisia and the Arab world".
Personal life
Baccar is married to .References
External links
*Jalila Baccar
at BFI
Profile of Baccar on Familia's Facebook page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baccar, Jalila 1952 births Living people Tunisian dramatists and playwrights Tunisian women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Tunisian actresses 21st-century Tunisian actresses 20th-century Tunisian women writers 20th-century Tunisian writers 21st-century Tunisian women writers 21st-century Tunisian writers Actors from Tunis Writers from Tunis