Les Heures sèches

Birmingham, Alabama, at the beginning of the 1930s, during the Depression. The TCI militia chases the communist activist Tice Hogan, a black worker who lives poorly with his daughter Cali, a washerwoman for a white family. With the arrival of a young white man, Corbin Teel, wounded, pursued by he police and asking for refuge, their life changes radically. Naomi Wallace continues here to explore themes that are important to her - power, racial or social struggles -, all of it without didacticism and in an extremely precise language. 

Naomi Wallace is an American playwright, script-writer and poet who currently lives in the north of England. Author of 10 plays, her work has been produced in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Middle East. Her play In the Heart of America was performed at Théâtre Ouvert in December 2003 during a Carte blanche at the Maison Antoine Vitez. Naomi Wallace is a member of the sponsorship committee of the Russell Tribune on Palestine.

text Naomi Wallace
mise en espace Guillaume Lévêque
translation Dominique Hollier
with the cooperation ofAlain Françon and Baptiste Guiton

with Carlo Brandt, Fatou N'Diayen, Pascal Nzonzi