What stories do we tell each other?
This is where it starts.
With a conversation, an encounter.
I want to know what brings you here.
I want to point you right through that system ceiling to your dreams.
In the theater solo MOED, actor and teacher Mahfoud Mokaddem takes you into his classroom at MBO 1. He introduces you to Reza, Dayenne, Teun and all those other students for whom no one ever raises a flag. Mahfoud recognizes himself in them. Because once he was like that too: a boy who always sits in the back. In class, on the bus, in society.
I don’t prepare them for the exams. I’m preparing them for life.
MOED is stand-up storytelling and tells the story of that one teacher who does see you, of students who deserve a hand in the back and colleagues who don’t understand you. A performance full of hip-hop beats, video art and stories of students and teachers who find little connection to the education system and wonder: what am I doing it for?
After TWAALF, ZESTIEN and ONEENTWINTIG, MOED is the final piece in the research of city company PS|theater into inequality of opportunity in education.
In the lead role, Mahfoud Mokaddem shines (…). Mokaddem effortlessly transforms the theater into a classroom (…) In a remarkably dynamic direction by Pepijn Smit, Mokaddem flies, jumps and runs from scene to scene. – Theatererkrant
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