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.
Un instant d’éclat
A new wind is blowing in town B, a sort of burst of joy... A part of the population, after a devastating disaster, has been compensated to the tune of several million CFA francs. And this upsets all human relations... A text inspired by a real event that occurred on 4 March 2012 following the explosion of an ammunition depot in Brazzaville
Sur proposition des Francophonies – Des écritures à la scène et de la Maison des auteurs de Limoges, où le texte a été écrit durant une résidence d’écriture. L’autrice a aussi bénéficié pour ce texte d’une résidence à la Chartreuse avec la bourse Odyssée et à la Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris avec le programme TRAME
Pierrette Mondako, an actress and playwright from the Congo, wrote her first play, L'escalier aux danses sacro-folles, in 2002, just as she was setting up the Emeraude Pembe theatre company with Célestin Kauset. Since then, her plays have been performed at a number of festivals in Africa, including L'envers zdu ciel, Her play Entre deux souffles, le silence has already been read in Ça va, ça va le monde! in 2020.
Distribution
The Ça va, ça va le monde ! series is designed and coordinated by Pascal Paradou
Reading by Clémence Boissé, Pierre Lefebvre-Adrien , Sabine Pakora, Tadié Tuéné and Lymia Vitte
Reading directed by Armel Roussel
Assisted by Romain Cinter
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
The author's visit was made possible thanks to the support of the Institut français de Brazzaville.
Live on RFI's Facebook page Recorded on RFI and rfi.fr