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The sixth edition of the "RFI Theater Prize" is open! Francophones and francophone playwrights, we invite you to share your talent by sending your texts to RFI before April 27, 2019 at midnight.
Lomé, Cotonou, Port-au-Prince, Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Ouagadougou, Tunis ... the list is not exclusive, because everywhere initiatives are born in favor of the playwrights. For several years now, RFI has been involved in this project of discovery and accompaniment with the reading cycle of the Avignon Festival. It's all right! and with the Theater Award . Two events which allowed the visibility of new authors on the French and international scene. Hala Moughanie, 2015 winner, is now translated into English and Dutch. Edouard Elvis Bvouma made a Pan-African tour with The Bearded Doll in the Lorraine production of Sagazan. With Emmanuel Macron's presidential speech on La Francophonie and the announcement of an Africa 2020 season, this craze can not be denied. RFI seeks to fuel this desire and encourage this boiling that manifests itself in all Francophone worlds.
For the sixth year in a row, the RFI Théâtre Prize will reward an author living in Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean or the Middle East. For the first time, the call for writing will also be open to nationals of countries of the aforementioned areas, living in France for less than four years and holding a resident's card or political refugee status.
Your keyboards !
To your keyboards, to your stories! You have until Saturday, April 27 midnight to send us your text. To participate, other authors and authors must be between 18 and 46 years old and send a text intended for the stage. Original text, in French, unpublished in France, with a minimum of 15 numbered pages (which is much easier for the reading committee to read). Comedy, tragedy, drama, monologue ... Anything is possible but the writings will be chosen according to their dramaturgical quality, so it can not be a poem, a story or a story of a few pages.
To participate, you can send your texts until April 27 at midnight at the following address: prix.theatre@rfi.fr . You must fill in and attach to your application the registration form that you will find by following this link (in PDF).
The "Prix RFI Théâtre" will be awarded in Limoges as part of the Francophonies - Writings to the stage. The laureate will be chosen by a jury of professionals whose composition we will reveal to you later.
RFI and its partners will thus offer the laureate: professional support and media exposure through a stage creation residency on the winning text at the National Dramatic Center of Normandy-Rouen ; a financial endowment awarded by the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD) ; the organization of a writing residency in France, at the House of Authors of Limoges , funded by the French Institute ; the organization of a reading proposed by Théâtre Ouvert , Center national des dramaturgies contemporaines in Paris; and finally a promotion of the text and an airing on the antennas of RFI.
In 2018, the "Prix RFI Théâtre" rewarded Beninese author Sedjro Giovanni Houansou for his play Les inamovibles. The previous year, Edouard Elvis Bvouma's bearded doll received the first prize and has since been published by Lansman. This young Cameroonian author has therefore succeeded the Guinean Hakim Bah, the author of Convulsions . In 2015, it was the first play of the Lebanese author Hala Moughanie, Shut up and dig . And in 2014, Congolese Julien Mabiala Bissila won the first edition with Chemin de fer.
The "RFI Theater Prize" is organized in partnership with the French Institute, the National Dramatic Center of Normandy-Rouen, the SACD, The Francophonies - Writings on the Stage, and Open Theater, National Center for Contemporary Dramaturgy.
You can find more information and details about the prize conditions and rewards on the rules by clicking here .