French play to be staged today
The Embassy of France, in association with Alliance Francaise, is staging The First Man, a play adapted from Albert Camus’ novel and performed by Jean-Paul Schintu, at Alliance Française in Educational area, Issa Town, at 7pm today.
The high-quality play is a unique performance in French language.
The incomplete manuscript of The First Man was found in Camus’ briefcase at the accident site where he was killed. Albert Camus had been working for several years on this autobiographical novel and wished it to be a tribute to the Algerian population – Christian, Muslim, Jew – which is tearing apart at that time, but also drew the unknown identity of his father.
The First Man is a text about the human condition, social dramas, personal commitment, the relation to memory and the rootedness and attachment to a land and a community.
The play offers the most significant extracts of The First Man novel: the strong link to the mother, the search for the father, the brotherhood between poor people but also the damage done by colonialism against the backdrop of the Algerian war at the end of the 1950s. This text was published more than 30 years after the author’s death and reached us in an incomplete and raw but above all touching and priceless form.
Schintu, born in the same Algerian city than Albert Camus, presented The First Man among 60 plays – mainly from contemporary authors – in many cities in France and around the world. He was a student of Antoine Vitez and actor of Roger Planchon.
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