Rwanda's genocide in 1994 was an abomination that took place while the world looked on, and nothing managed to prevent. It inspired feelings of revolt for the spectator nations that seemed powerless to act, and particularly for Jacques Delcuvellerie and Marie-Françoise Collard who initiated Groupov's project. Rwanda 1994 is a documentary play that combines witness-accounts, fiction writing, documentary images and images of fiction, traditional music and song, a choir and an orchestra, Rwandans from Rwanda, from Europe as well as Europeans. The
question of rejection by "the other" can lead to the terrible events that are so well-known in our recent world history: the very European genocides of the Jews or the Gypsies in the Second World War. The same mechanisms - the idea of excluding those who are deemed to be inferior human-beings, in widespread indifference - took root in Rwanda, with the horrific consequences that we know. That human tragedy can be seen as a sort of extreme within a more general context of North-South relations and development - a context where on the ground people face a daily hecatomb, from hunger, disease and war. Rwanda 1994 is an artistic expression of the imbalance of relationships in the world and much more besides.
Distribution
stage direction Jacques Delcuvellerie
Associate director : Mathias Simons
Music composer : Garrett List
Pictures : Marie-France Collard
Scenography : Johan Daenen
Costumes : Greta Goiris Lighting : Marc Defrise
Cast : Yolande Mukagasana, (rescapée du génocide), Luc Brumagne, Younoussa Diallo, Jacques Delcuvellerie, Stéphane Fauville, Tharcisse Kalisa Rugano, Carole Karemera, Francine Landrain, Joëlle Ledent, Max Parfondry, Dorcy Rugamba, François SikivieLuc Brumagne, Younoussa Diallo, Stéphane Fauville, Tharcisse Kalisa Rugano, Carole Karemera, Francine Landrain, Joëlle Ledent, Max Parfondry, François Sikivie
With the participation of : N'Doba Gasana
Musicians : Manuela Bucher, Luc Gérard, Philippe Leblanc, Véronique Lierneux, Jean-Pol Zanutel.
Singers : Christine Schaller et Véronique Sonck
Composer and performer : Jean-Marie Muyango
Production
Coproduction : Groupov, Théâtre de la Place/Centre dramatique de la Communauté française et Théâtre national de la Communauté française
Avec l'aide de : la Communauté française/ministère de la Culture, du gouvernement de la Communauté française/cabinet de la ministre-présidente du Commissariat général aux Relations internationales de la Communauté française de Belgique (CGRI), de Bruxelles 2000 Asbl et de Théâtre et Publics Asbl
Avec le soutien de : la délégation et du Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris, ainsi que de Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre