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 These six texts are in fact ‘fresh writings’, most of them unpublished and never performed in Europe.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, which from Avignon are addressed to the whole world.
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.
Wilé !
By Nadale Fidine - Cameroun
One night like any other, a child disappears. No one in the village has seen him. The young mother contacts the police, the father goes to see the diviner. With no right to speak, it is through song, the wilé, that the mother's cry is expressed and her struggle against an all too bloody reality begins.
Proposed by Les Francophonies - Des écritures à la scène and the Maison des auteurs de Limoges, where the text was written during a writing residency.
Nadale Fidine is a playwright, poet and teacher born in Doukoula Kar-hay in Cameroon's Far North region. Her passion for a more humane society is the driving force behind her writing. The author of three texts for the stage, Bouillon de thèses, Revers ou Wilé, she deals with endemic problems facing Cameroonian society in the hope of changing attitudes.
Distribution
With Nathalie Hounvo -Yekpé, Tadié Tuéné, Ibrahima Diokine Sambou and Fatou Hane
And Insas students Héléna Ekanda, Margaux Roussillon, Thibault Hebrard, Lewis Forgeur, Emilie Vereggen and Sofia Golovatch
Reading directed by Armel Roussel, assisted by Baptiste Uhl and Martin Villemonteix (Insas).
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, the Agence française de développement and for this reading from the French Institute of Cameroon.