Geography: Africa > Northern Africa > Tunisia
Year: 2026
Produced by: Fabula Production in co-production with the Tunisian National Theatre
Creative Team: Written, directed and designed by Wafa Taboubi; music by Hani Ben El Hamadi
Synopsis: Les Fugueuses places six strangers in a station-like space where they wait for an event that never arrives. Each character has lost confidence in the life available to them, yet movement towards the unknown offers no assured solution. The single setting builds tension and makes waiting a form of emotional displacement in itself. Their eventual departure from the station repositions the small movement of leaving into displacement. People are already separated from ordinary life before they cross a territorial border. Movement across the stage communicates their effort to recover agency from prolonged uncertainty. The production considers departure as both physical flight and an internal rupture with a former identity. It asks what remains of belonging when return is no longer possible and another home has not been found yet.
Source: L’Économiste Maghrébin, production information: https://www.leconomistemaghrebin.com/2026/07/18/les-fugueuses-une-traversee-theatrale-signee-wafa-ta boubi/