Call for applications for the 2021 RFI Theater Prize
Call for applications for the 2021 RFI Theater Prize. You have until April 25, 2021 to send your texts to prix.theatre@rfi.fr.
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Text by: Pascal Paradou
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Tirades or dialogues… Your turn to write!
To make your voice heard, your stories, bring your characters to life and travel in the French-speaking world, there is only one address: prix.theatre@rfi.fr.
The call for applications for the eighth edition of the RFI Theater Prize begins this Saturday, March 20, International Day of the Francophonie.
Francophone playwrights, you have five weeks to invent, refine, refine, adjust your texts before the deadline of April 25, 2021, at midnight.
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In these times of pandemic and shrinking world where travel is limited, texts can travel.
Comedies, tragedies, dramas, with or without Covid-19, with lyricism or harshness, monologues or polyphonic pieces.
What will this 2021 edition look like?
It is the authors who will say it.
All theatrical genres are possible.
All that matters is the quality of the dramaturgy and the style.
Usually, almost two hundred texts arrive each year and it is each time a wonder to know that of all the cities of the planet, women and men write the world, their society, anger and their emotions in forms. theatrical, that is to say in an address to the public.
With the cycle of readings of the Festival d'Avignon
Ca va, ça va le monde!
and with the Theater Prize, RFI has been involved for several years in discovering and highlighting new talents in dramatic writing.
And it is clear that the laureates of this prize have all evoked an essential human and artistic adventure in their journey.
All are read, some are performed, others published, but each and every one has multiplied the working meetings during the proposed residencies and invitations to festivals and theaters.
This award allows you to be heard on RFI's airwaves as part of the
Ca va, ça va le monde
reading cycle
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, recorded at the Festival d'Avignon.
But all the loyal partners of this prize allow the winner to benefit from working time, whether at the Villa Ndar in Saint-Louis du Senegal, at the Maison des Auteurs de Limoges or at the CDN Normandie-Rouen, a dramaturgical accompaniment with Open Theater and unfailing support from the SACD and the French Institute.
As usual, the prize is open to authors born and living in Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean or the Middle East.
To take into account local political situations, the call for submissions is also open to nationals of countries in the aforementioned areas, living in France for less than four years and holding a resident card or political refugee status.
You have until midnight Sunday April 25 to send us your text.
To participate, authors must be between 18 and 46 years old and send a text in French with a minimum of 15 numbered pages - which is much easier for the reading committee to read.
RFI Theater 2021 Prize Rules
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To be eligible for selection, the texts must be received before Sunday, April 25, 2021, midnight.
The date and time of the email being taken as proof, to the following address: prix.theatre@rfi.fr.
You must complete and attach the registration form to your text.
The two items should be automatically sent together.
The reading committee will select a maximum of twelve or thirteen texts which will be submitted to a jury.
This is in the process of being put together, but it will include, as every year, representatives of the partners, but also qualified personalities, actors, directors, writers or publishers, and will meet at the beginning of September.
The RFI Théâtre Prize will be awarded on September 26 in Limoges, as part of the Zébrures d'automne festival, organized by Les Francophonies - From writing to the stage.
Suspense.
Who will succeed Julien Mabiala Bissila, Hala Moughanie, Hakim Bah, Édouard Elvis Bvouma, Sedjro Giovanni Houansou and Valérie Cachard and Souleymane Bah?
The games are on, but so far nothing and no one can say who will win.
Some were shortlisted several times before winning the prize, others won the first time.
In all cases, they were beautiful texts and what followed revealed that their authors were all formidable and generous personalities, forging literary affinities and complicities between them.
The RFI Theater Prize is organized in partnership with the Institut français, the Institut français de Saint-Louis du Sénégal, the Center dramatique national de Normandie-Rouen, the SACD, Les Francophonies - From writing to the stage and Open Theater, National Center for Contemporary Dramaturgies.
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