Ghani Mahdi

Thirty-five years abroad. It's starting to feel like a long time for someone who only intended to leave for five minutes.

In this funny, poetic, and autobiographical one-man show, GHANI MAHDI recounts leaving, borders, paperwork, accents, encounters, family left behind in his home country, and that strange habit exile takes on: what was meant to be temporary ends up becoming a life.

From Sétif to Geneva, from Paris to London, he navigates his own story with the perspective of a man who has never stopped observing the contradictions of immigration, integration, and attachment to one's homeland.

The show blends stand-up, autobiographical narrative, poetry, music, silences, attitudes, and theatrical performance. Laughter remains central: a daily situation can become a joke, then, a few seconds later, reveal the tenderness or pain it conceals.

"When you've lived everywhere, where do you go home? "