International Festival of Contemporary Theatre
Programme
81 Avenue Victor Hugo
8, 9 September 20:00, Former 'Energoremonts' manufactory | 20 and 15 eur
Avenue Victor Hugo is one of the luxury streets in Paris, while in Aubervilliers the street with the same name accommodates warehouses, Asian textile stores, little grocery shops and cafe-tobacco stands. Number 81, former employment agency is now an empty building facing unfinished Chinese supermarket. In August 2014 after four months in the streets the house was squatted by dozens of immigrants without papers. Eight of them take part in the performance to talk about their survival mechanisms and their way to Europe – “the cradle of Humanism” where solidarity and empathy co-exist with violence and lie is an answer to injustice. Their journeys lasting for years and spreading across continents raise question about the nature of hospitality and universal rights to home.
About artist
French director Olivier Coulon-Jablonka has studied acting and philosophy. In 2005, he founded his company Moukden théâtre mainly dealing with urgent phenomena of contemporary world and confronting theatre texts with documentary material. Recently he has staged a show about urban works of Greater Paris, Paris Belongs to Us. In 2014 Theatre de la Commune commissioned a piece on news, une pièce d’actualité. Walking the streets of Aubervilliers, Coulon-Jablonka encountered a group of 80 immigrants without papers, collected their stories and created a piece about the issues of global immigration.
Credits
Text: Olivier Coulon-Jablonka, Barbara Métais-Chastanier, Camille Plagnet
Direction: Olivier Coulon-Jablonka
By and with: Adama Bamba, Moustapha Cissé, Ibrahim Diallo, Mamadou Diomandé, Inza Koné, Souleyman S., Méité Soualiho, Mohammed Zia
Production: La Commune CDN d’Aubervilliers
Co-production: Moukden Théâtre
With the support of Conseil Régional d’Île-de-France, du Conseil Départemental de Seine-Saint-Denis, et de Plaine Commune
Premiere in Aubervilliers, 2015
8, 9
September
20:00
20 and 15*
Eur
Language
In French with Latvian and English translation
Duration
50min
Address
The easiest way to get to Energoremonts Manufactory is by car (free parking available) or by public transport - bus No 13. Get in at the stop 'Central station' at 19.03, get out at 'Slāvu rotācijas aplis'. After the show the public bus No 13 leaves from the stop 'Lubānas iela' at 21.18. More info at: rigassatiksme.lv
Website
* Reduced price for pupils, students, seniors, people with disabilities