Theatre
La Fille du polygame
Not translated into English
Nassur Attoumani · 1989
Synopsis
In Mayotte, Fatiha Bahouili, an uneducated but passionate young woman, is engaged to her first cousin Papa Kojo, a drunkard who wets his bed, whom her parents have chosen according to the custom of marriage between cousins. She stands up to them and turns to an amputee stranger. Around this family conflict, the comedy takes aim at African time, at arrangements with the Koran, at illegal immigration, at French justice and at machismo.
Context
First performed in 1989, the year the author founded his company, the play was staged throughout the island before being published in 1992 in Paris by L'Harmattan, in the Encres noires series, with a preface by Claude Allibert and the subtitle “théâtre mahorais”. It is said to be the first play written in French in the Comoros. The author plays on the double meanings of Shimaore and Anjouanais: Papa Kojo, which spectators from metropolitan France took for a mockery aimed at a musician of the island, means a sea cucumber.
Who it is for
A short comedy of manners, in French, with a satirical humour; some names play on words from the languages of the archipelago.
Prizes and reception
A study published in 2022 sees in it the confirmation of the popular success of a comedy performed from 1989 throughout Mayotte.
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