Best Actor Award (Arab Television Festival) - 1983
Abdelmajid Lakhal (November 29, 1939 – September 27, 2014)[1][2] was a
Tunisiantheatre and
filmactor 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.
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 [
fr]), which was performed again at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Paris. He worked at the creation of 'Jafabule' (
Christian Le Guillochet).
He also organized tours and directed 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.[6]