Memories and Utopias at the Avignon Festival

Audio 29:00

The show "Kingdom" by Anne-Cécile Vandalem © Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon

By: Pascal Paradou

31 min

Are the future, memories and utopias linked?

De Vive (s) Voix attended the “Remembering the Future” evening in honor of the centenary of the philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin who recounted his commitments in the form of dialogues with personalities such as Christiane Taubira, Pablo Servigné or even Pascal Ory.

At the same time,

Kingdom

by Anne-Cécile Vandalem was being played

,

a play about the failure of a family in their dream of utopia. 

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Set off to the edge of the Siberian taiga to escape the noise of the world and rebuild an idealized way of life, a family joined by its branch is caught up with everything it was trying to escape… The play is inspired by Clément's documentary film Cogitore, Braguino (2017).  

Guests:

Pauline Ringeade

, assistant director for the

Kingdom

show directed 

by 

Anne-Cécile Vandalem. 

After

Sadness

and the

Arctic

,

Kingdom

concludes a cycle on the failures of societies and utopias.

Laurent Caron

, one of the main actors of

Kingdom.

Kingdom

is played from July 6 to 14, 2021, in the courtyard of the Lycée Saint-Joseph in Avignon.

The text of the play is available from

Actes Sud editions

.

The show will be resumed at the

Théâtre du Nord,

in Lille from October 19 to 22, 2021.

And the story of

'

Alexandra Jaegy

on the show "

The Conquest

"

of

Nicolas Alline, Dorothée Saysombat from “

La compagnie à

”, a theater and puppet show on the colonial question.

“La Conquête” is played at the

Nouveau Grenier

 from July 7 to 28, 2021. 

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