Chouf Ouchouf: the Medina, the old quarter, where it’s ten to a house, and a hundred to the narrowest street. Shout or you won’t be heard; push to the front or never be seen. Life and colour lie round every corner, animals and cigarette hawkers fill the squares. The city is unruly and chaotic, but beneath the clamour and fights of the market are the whispers of its other life. Dusk falls like a shutter, and then the night. Silently the walls open, and amid the maze-like streets and along the rooftops figures move on secret agendas.

Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger capture the danger, joy and urgency of life in Tanger. With Chouf Ouchouf they move through a set that floats apart and reassembles to present the many faces of a bewildering and exciting landscape, taking in the old and the nearly new in search of the city’s beating heart.

Chouf Ouchouf  toured the UK in May and June 2011 to these venues – Scotland’s Eden Court and macrobert Arts Centre, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre, Hall for Cornwall, Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, Brighton Dome and Theatre Royal Norwich.

A Zimmermann and de Perrot, co-production: Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Migros Culture Percentage, Le Volcan, scène nationale du Havre, Equinoxe, Scène nationale de Châteauroux, Espace Jean Legendre – Théâtre de Compiègne, MC2: Grenoble, Association Scènes du Maroc