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RFI begins again this Saturday, July 13 th theatrical adventure and radio "It's okay, it's going the world! At the Avignon Festival. Admission is free for this cycle of theater readings increasingly acclaimed by the public. Presented from July 13th to 18th at the rue de Mons garden, it brings together authors from Benin, Romania, Guinea, Cameroon, Togo and Lebanon.
Every year, "It's okay, it's going the world! "Is an appointment where we press for a start, gently and curious mind, a day of festival. And for the first time, you can live this year's event in Facebook Live , from Saturday, July 13th to Thursday, July 18th, at 11am.
Cigales of the morning, chimes sounding noon, the garden of the rue de Mons, at the foot of the Palais des Papes, is indeed a place of discovery for texts little known or not, sometimes unpublished, written by authors of the Southern Francophonie . Six texts, six authors, including this year Les irremovables by Sedjro Giovanni Houansou , who won the RFI Théâtre 2018 prize.
From the first words, the tragedy is there ... Malik, a young migrant, throws himself under a train, in despair. His parents will dream, will wait a long time for his return. Stalemate and sham. With the text of this young Beninese author, the tragedy of this century unfolds in back and forth between dream, desire and expectation.
To say contemporary Africa
Sédjro Giovanni Houansou is an author committed to say contemporary Africa as most of those who play theater in Yaoundé, Conakry or Lomé. Three countries from which originated the authors read in this cycle 2019 and which, each one, tells frontally stories related to the migration ( Sufo Sufo ), the corruption, the terrorism (Souleymane Bah) or the memory of the colonization ( Mawusi Agbdjibji ).
In other languages from other linguistic and geographical areas, Africa is not far away. Alexandra Badea tackles the issue of helping migrants and Hala Moughanie tackling land appropriation. A certain gravity mark, as often, this 2019 edition, but fun, madness and emotion are also at the rendezvous with texts that are the best testimony of the vitality of dramatic writing in the French-speaking world.
When words fly off the air
These texts are adapted for a radio format, as each of these readings is recorded for broadcast on RFI during the summer. Nevertheless, there is the fragility of theater, the art of presence and the ephemeral par excellence. Actors and musicians work under the direction of the director Armel Roussel to say, read, play these texts once, only one, in this intimate garden under the shade of the hackberries.
Then the words fly beyond the walls of the city of the popes, on the radio. Crickets, an emotion, words, discovery is the magic of the Festival d'Avignon in 50 minutes.
Saturday, July 13, at 11am:
The Inamovibles, of Sèdjro Giovanni Houansou (Benin)
Sunday, July 14, at 11am:
The one who looks at the world , Alexandra Badea (Romania / France)
Monday July 15th, at 11am:
Dance with the devil , by Souleymane Bah Thiâ'Nguel (Guinea)
Tuesday, July 16th, at 11am:
Standing one foot , Denis Sufo Tagne says Sufo Sufo
Wednesday, July 17, at 11am:
Trance-Master (s) , by Mawusi Agbedjidji (Togo)
Thursday, July 18th, at 11am:
Memento Mori , from Hala Moughanie (Lebanon)
► It's okay, it's going the world! at the Festival d'Avignon , from July 13 to 18, 2019, at 11am, in the garden of the rue de Mons. An RFI / Festival d'Avignon / [e] utopia co-production with the support of SACD. Directed by Armel Roussel.
► The radio versions of the readings will be broadcast on RFI's antenna, site and social networks every Sunday, from July 28 to September 1, 2019, at 12:10 pm.
► You can listen to previous readings here .