Abdelmajid Lakhal

Abdelmajid Lakhal
Born 29 November 1939
Bizerte, Tunisia
Died 27 September 2014 (aged 74)
Tunis, Tunisia
Occupation Actor, director
Years active 1948 - 2014
Awards Best Actor Award (Arab Television Festival) - 1983

Abdelmajid Lakhal (November 29, 1939 – September 27, 2014)[1][2] was a Tunisian theatre and film actor and theatre director. He was considered to be a professional and versatile interpreter. Recently, he performed classical pieces (Carlo Goldoni, Anton Chekhov) translated into Arabic, at the Municipal theatre of Tunis, which were well received.[3] He was known on Arab Television for acting in many telefilms.[4][5]

Biography

Early life

Born in Bizerte on November 29, 1939, Lakhal lived with his family at Hammam-Lif. He performed his first role at 9 years old in 1948 in 'Khātimat al-naffāf' (The end of a morphine addict).

Career

He says that the passion for theatre took him "...totally when he was 16 years old....". He joined the students 'Group Jeunes Comédiens', at Hammam-Lif.

In 1960 he was a student at the National Theatre of Music and Dance of Tunis.

In 1965 he directed Molière's Georges Dandin with the al-Nuhūd Group of Tunis.

From 1966-1967 he played Flaminio from Robert Merle, Yerma from Federico García Lorca, and the Marshall from Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

For the 1968 adaptation of Hamlet in the town of Hammamet, Tunisia, Lakhal was assistant director to Alì Ben Ayed. In 1971 he made his debut as a professional director with '8 Ladies' by Robert Thomas.

In 1974 he directed The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), and in 1982 he played Magid in 'La Noce' (Luce Berthommé), which was performed again at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Paris. He worked at the reaction of 'Jafabule' (Christian Le Guillochet).

He also organized tournées and directed at the Group of the Theatre de Tunis, which has worked three times in the 'Théâtre de la Ville' (Paris), and also in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Vienna, Egypt, and Lebanon.

Filmography

As an actor

Abdelmajid Lakhal in 2007

Theatre

Non professional

Director

Television

Abdelmajid Lakhal at St Georges Hotel, Tunis 2006

The television programs, in Tunisia started in 1966.

References

  1. ↑ "L’acteur Abdelmajid Lakhal n’est plus". tunisie14.tn. September 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Actor and Director Abdelmajid Lakhal Passes Away". http://world.einnews.com. September 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Tunisie , Nécrologie : Décès de l'acteur Abdelmajid Lakhal". tunivisions.net. September 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Mehdi Jomaa: l'Etat prendra en charge les frais de soins de l'artiste tunisien Abdelmajid Lakhal". Babnet Tunisie. September 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Décès de l’acteur Abdelmajid Lakhal". Mosaiquefm.net. September 28, 2014.

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