This series of readings is an opportunity for Festival audiences and World Radio listeners to discover new works. These six texts are in fact ‘fresh writings’, most of them unpublished and never performed in Europe. Texts by authors from African countries and Haiti, addressed to the whole world from Avignon.
This 12th edition will open with a focus on Cameroon: two texts inspired by social issues, the disappearance of children and freedom of the press. Eric Delphin Kwegoué, winner of the Prix RFI Théâtre 2023, writes a plea for press freedom dedicated to all the journalists murdered in his country. All the other plays, from Benin and Haiti, are also texts of struggle and the missing narratives that are essential to a broader perception of the world.
Gorgée d'eau
By Penda Diouf - France - Senegal
A schoolgirl and her mother watch a shower of dead birds fall: what catastrophe is this a sign of? The drought sets in, the earth cracks, words dry up for lack of saliva and between the two women a bonsai tree is the object of all their solicitude.
Since 2007, Penda Diouf has been writing for performing arts: Pistes, La grande ourse, Noir comme l'or .... And she continues to multiply her collaborations with Germany and Africa, as well as commissions such as this text written for the Lycéens citoyens programme. With Anthony Thibault, she also founded the label Jeunes Textes en Liberté to help discover young authors.
Distribution
Reading by Insas students Solange O'Brayanne Muneme, Jeanne Litt-Magis
Reading directed by Armel Roussel assisted by Romain Cinter
Sound design Pierre-Alexandre Lampert
The Ça va, ça va le monde! series is created and coordinated by Pascal Paradou
Production
Coproduction RFI, Compagnie [e]utopia
With the support of Institut français, SACD, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Fonds Marie-Paule Delvaux Godenne, L'asbl Les Amis de l'Insas and the Agence française de développement