Six readings to discover authors from Africa and Haiti who tell a completely different story, far from our daily lives and realities. For this 11th edition, RFI proposes to discover the winner of the RFI Theatre 2022 Prize, the Haitian Gaelle Bien-Aimé, who recounts a daily life of violence and threats in Port-au-Prince, as well as writers who describe an African continent struggling with the demons of modernity. Finally, it is an opportunity to rediscover a text by Kossi Efoui, winner of the 1993 Inter-African Theatre Competition organised by RFI at the time. A prize that "saved his life", according to his own admission, when he was arrested and tortured as a student activist in his country, Togo. For all of them, theatre is both a weapon and a shield, a vital gesture where the urgency to say can be heard in every line. Six texts recorded in Avignon and broadcast around the world on international radio.
Author, director and actress. Jeanne Diama trained at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers MultiMedia Balla Fasséké Kouyaté. Since 2017 she has alternated between residencies in Africa and France. In 2022 she presented Tafe Fanga (the power of the loincloth) at the Festival Zébrures d'automne in Limoges. This text, Cousu-main / coups humains, is supported by the Des mots à la scène fund at the Institut français de Paris.
Cousu-mains/Coups humains
Anna talks about when it all started: when she was 8 years old, when "the first men came to the house". She testifies to the chain of violence. She shouted, her parents kept silent. Today she wants to go far away, but first she has to confront her story, all these human blows suffered, to the silence of her mother and of the society that silences women.
Distribution
The Ça va, ça va le monde ! series is designed and coordinated by Pascal Paradou
Readings directed by Armel Roussel
Reading by Estelle Marion and Zenabou Mbamba
Reading directed by Armel Roussel
Assisted by Alex Sartoretti
Musical creation by Sina Kienou
Production
Coproduced by RFI, Compagnie [e]utopia
With the support the French Institute, SACD for its radio cultural action, Wallonie-Bruxelles International
The author's visit was made possible thanks to the support of the Institut français du Mali.
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