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Marcel Bozonnet, privileged host of the Maison de la Culture, presents a new extravagant and edifying project. The Mameluke who became Sultan is an adaptation of Baïbars’ novel, a masterpiece of popular Arab literature that could be compared with European medieval novels such as the Saint Grail saga… Baïbars is a historical character. He reigned over the Cairo and Damascus in the 13th century. He is famous for having stopped the Mongol invasion and taken back the crusaders’ main fortresses. His life is the basis of the tale… The story begins with a prophecy seen in a dream by a king. Then comes the slave, announced by the prophecy, ill, abandoned in a hammam, then rescued and adopted by a benefactress. The teenager recite perfectly the Koran and goes through initiation tests in order to become a fair and feared warrior, before becoming the powerful Sultan of Islamic lands. But in the heart of the plot, our hero has to cope with the devilish plans of a fierce adversary… On the stage, which looks like a nomadic camp, there are TV sets, some lumps of earth, several linen bundles, chairs, benches, basins… Gathered around a storyteller, the French, Syrians, Lebanese and Tunisians actors share the generosity of oral tradition, when words spout up like a geyser in the heart of the desert and when the epic transcends ages and frontiers thanks to the extraordinary feats of arms of this Mameluke who became Sultan…