The Festival's matinale with Pascal Paradou accompanied by Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, winner of the RFI Théâtre 2022 Prize for "Ça va, ça va le Monde!", 15 July 2023
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.
Port-au-Prince et sa douce nuit
One night in a room, with the window open, a couple make love, talk about their passion, their fears and the temptation of exile. While machine-gun fire is heard in the city, they also talk about their desire for beauty and their mad love for this devastated capital.
Gaëlle Bien-Aimé is a journalist, comedian, director and activist. She is also a member of the feminist organisation Nègès Mawon, which is involved in the fight for women's rights in Haiti. She has just been awarded the RFI Théâtre 2022 prize for this text. Port-au-Prince et sa douce nuit. The prize is organised in partnership with the Institut français, the Institut français de St-Louis du Sénégal, the SACD, Les Francophonies - Des écritures à la scène, Théâtre Ouvert and the CDN de Normandie-Rouen.
Distribution
The Ça va, ça va le monde ! series is designed and coordinated by Pascal Paradou
Reanding Sachernka Anacassis, Jean D’Amérique and David Duverseau
Readings directed by Armel Roussel
Assisted by Romain Cinter
Musical creation Pierre-Alexandre Lampert
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 facilitated thanks to the support of the French Institute in Haiti
The author's visit was made possible thanks to the support of the French Institute in Haiti.
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