{"id":14623,"date":"2025-10-04T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:50:08","slug":"bejaia-regional-theatre-the-witch-and-the-orphans-captivates-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=14623","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e9ja\u00efa Regional Theatre: \u201cThe Witch and the Orphans\u201d Captivates Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>B\u00e9ja\u00efa \u2013 The play <em>\u201cThe Witch and the Orphans,\u201d<\/em> performed Friday at the Abdelmalek Bouguermouh Regional Theatre, mesmerized the large number of children who flocked to the venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theatre\u2019s main hall was filled to capacity in the early evening, as children accompanied by their parents arrived well before the scheduled start to attend the premiere of the play, written and directed by playwright Ramila Tassa\u00e2dit and produced by the B\u00e9ja\u00efa Regional Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talented young actors shone in their roles, maintaining the audience\u2019s attention for nearly an hour. The story follows three siblings\u2014two brothers, Na\u00e2ssane and Sami, and their sister Salma\u2014orphans without a family, living in an orphanage run by an evil witch who exploits the children for begging to enrich herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the play, the children encounter a kind wizard who helps them escape the witch\u2019s exploitation and return to a dignified and peaceful life as innocent children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the press last Tuesday, Ramila Tassa\u00e2dit described the production as \u201ca work rich in educational and human messages, affirming that theatre is a space for education and the building of values.\u201d She added that the play also aims \u201cto raise awareness of the dangers threatening children\u2019s innocence, such as begging and certain social ills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the playwright, the show will tour several provinces across the country in the coming weeks, including rural villages, to allow as many children as possible to experience theatre. Producers also announced that the play will be performed in both of Algeria\u2019s national languages, Arabic and Amazigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B\u00e9ja\u00efa \u2013 The play \u201cThe Witch and the Orphans,\u201d performed Friday at the Abdelmalek Bouguermouh Regional Theatre, mesmerized the large number of children who flocked to the venue. The theatre\u2019s main hall was filled to capacity in the early evening, as children accompanied by their parents arrived well before the scheduled start to attend the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14625,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions\/14625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}