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MONOKO-ZOHI
Auteur : The Ivorian DIEGOU Bailly
Director : Sidiki BAKABA Photos - Interviews. - SETTING THE SCENE
Sidiki BAKABA
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Big names of the Theater Ivory Coast as Sidiki BAKABA, KOUADIO Blaise, BAH Kanoulau and the Students from Actor Studio A mysterious old man arrives at the twilight of the evening in the village (cosmopolitan) Monoko-Zohi, inhabited by people of all origins and all religions. The night of his arrival, the old man commits adultery with the wife of his host. From this union, born a child named Wassi-To-To (We never provoke war ... when called, she answered immediately).
Furthermore, the day after the visit of old, Monoko-Zohi is attacked by a horde of ogres he manages to free himself through the sacred union of all his son (natural and adoptive) around their head and especially Tizie thanks to the courage and fighting spirit of old.
Despite his heroism, the old will, though, brought before the customary court for adultery. According to tradition, this crime is punishable by hanging.
Shortly before the execution of the sentence, the Chief Tizie reveals the true identity of the mysterious old man.
PRESENTATION OF NEWS MONOKO-ZOHI
A small cosmopolitan village like many others on our planet where alien and native live. Tolerance and intolerance, the constant friction of the human beast "came from nowhere to somewhere, but still will wake up one day. Shame on the person who does not know that whoever we are, we come from somewhere.
One evening at dusk, a shadow in the form of an old man comes to his turn in the village and is greeted with the legendary African hospitality. One night, one night, the first was sufficient to create a radical upheaval in the village and especially in the lives of the couple who has kindly agreed to host the old home.
That night was fatal. Adultery committed by the old name evocative, mythic, universal and ethnic Thanatos, Osiris, etc. Gazo. rewarded the young wife of a sterile child call'd To-Wassi-To: "We never provoke war ... when called, she answered immediately. >> When the war is announced, the devourer (death) always precedes and prepares for his funeral feast. It looks ready. Was it the harbinger of the imminent coming of the war, that the presence of old, as the swallow heralds the rain? Voila that Monoko-Zohi is attacked by Ogres from overseas with their hawks steel and other lethal devices, built by the dead to try and assassinate death. Hegemony ogres stood up against a tiny village. Monoko-Zohi is wiped off the map, leaving a giant charnel made flesh, plants and minerals, everything disintegrated.
The number of Diegou Bailly challenges us and reminds us of our daily nightmare for some 18 and September 19. It reminds us that we are witnesses or victims of a tragedy imposed on us by a satanic alliance.
Faced with the spectacle of war that will leave scars that no ointment will not delete, we are doomed to resist. Diegou tells us with myth and now married, mixed, kneaded like war can. The theater is the forge of metamorphosis and place conducive to the truth that springs instantly. The theater is as our ultimate tool to untangle this Gordian knot.
The shadow needs the light to be carved and needs light shade to assert itself. The action is performed.
If reality is sometimes far more than fiction, it falls into the net of art that mirror becomes a hammer. The theater is no longer a reflection but the fire of a forge that shapes the seething life.
Sidiki BAKABA 
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