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.
Born in Bana, Éric Delphin Kwégoué is an author, director, actor and artistic director of the Compto'Art54 Festival in Douala, Cameroon. Since 2002, he has written some twenty plays, including Tout est mystère, L'ombre de mon propre vampire, Autopsie d'une poubelle, Igonshua ou jamais sans eux, which won the Prix des Inédits d'Afrique et d'Outremer in 2017. Lez-Zanimal is a winner of the SENDA - Studio d'Ecritures Nomades en Drôme et en Ardèche.
LeZ-Zanimal
A returning architect with grandiose plans, a money-obsessed billionaire, a witchy naturopath and ambitious children. A fable about the harshness of contemporary life, greed and the crazy dreams of a new world
leZ-Zanimal is published by Éditions de l'appartement and Comédie de Valence.
Distribution
The Ça va, ça va le monde ! series is designed and coordinated by Pascal Paradou
Read by Ibrahima Diokine Sambou, Achille Gwem, Abdon Fortuné Koumbha, Estelle Marion, Claudette Mendela Bediebe and Daddy Moanda Kamono
Reading directed by Armel Roussel
Assisted by Alex Sartoretti
Musical creation by Pierre-Alexandre Lampert
Production
Coproduced by RFI, Compagnie [e]utopia
With the support of the French Institute, SACD for its radio cultural action, Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Live on RFI's Facebook page Recorded on RFI and rfi.fr