Ahmed Yacoubi

Individual

Biographical Information Ahmed ben Driss el Yacoubi (1928–1985) was a Moroccan painter and storyteller. He was born in Fez, Morocco. Yacoubi's play The Night Before Thinking was published in the Evergreen Review in 1961. In 1964, the play was produced by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club at their East Village theater and at Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theater in Westport, Connecticut. Yacoubi also contributed to set design and construction for productions at La MaMa during the 1970s, including Arden of Faversham and Alfred Jarry's Ubu, directed by Andrei Serban in 1970, and Oh Taeseok's Jilsa, directed by Duk-Hyung Yoo in 1974.

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Related work Night Before Thinking, The

Related productions "Ubu" and "Arden of Faversham" (1970), Jilsa (1974), Night Before Thinking, The (1974a), Night Before Thinking, The (1974a), Night Before Thinking, The (1974b), Night Before Thinking, The (1974b)

Related special events For the Benefit of Harry (1974), Ahmed Yacoubi: A Retrospective (1989), Homage To Ahmed Yacoubi (1995), Remembering Ahmed Yacoubi (2006)