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France
Cie De(s)amorce(s)
Thissa d'Avila Bensalah
French
A group of politically engaged actors and actresses come together to try to stage a text by Fassbinder: Anarchy in Bavaria, a play of naive science fiction that becomes a pretext to challenge the notions of art and utopia. While the actors try to adopt a collective mode of working, all sorts of problems impede their ability to obtain a shared interpretation of the text: political discord, power plays, monopolies on knowledge, gender relations... How can they resist the temptation to reproduce the games of domination or the society of the spectacle that they combat elsewhere?
This atypical and perhaps utopian adventure raises questions about our ability to be real vectors for transformation. It show the difficulties of political engagement, such as the struggle for survival as an obstacle to change, the lack of “positive” historical frameworks, the difficulty of counting on others or on the group... It’s a laboratory of the creative process that looks at the revolutionary heritage using the expressions of today and draws up a kind of hard-hitting balance sheet about the political prospects of our times.
A collective creation based on Anarchy in Bavaria by R.W. Fassbinder – France
Company: De(s)amorce(s) / Director: Thissa d’Avila Bensalah / Playwright: Sarah Cillaire / Assistant director: Eva Peyson / Set design: Julia Kravtsova / Choreography: Anna Rodriguez / Lights: Manuel Desfeux / Video: Julie Simonney / Music: Mathieu Boccaren / Costumes: Alice Duval & Maria-Adelia
With: Adélaïde Bon, Isabelle Woussen, Marion Harlez-Citti, Gilles Geenen, Adrien Cauchetier, Stanislas Siwiorek
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