[In full] Souleymane Bah (Guinea): "La Cargaison"

The actors Vincent Minne, Serge Yerone Koto and Nadège Ouedraogo, during the readings of "La Cargaison", by Souleymane Bah.

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5 mins

A cargo of the dead roams the city.

On board, the victims of indiscriminate police repression.

Written after the bloody demonstrations of October 2019 in Conakry, this polyphonic piece gives voice to corpses, to the hearse, but also to bullets to express the absurdity of mass death.

An uncompromising writing, sometimes violent and desperate, sometimes lyrical where tragedy has the first and the last word:

it gust, it collapses, it bites, it dies!

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RFI Theater Prize 2020 *

Read by the actors Serge Yéroné Koto, Vincent Minne, Nadège Ouedraogo. 

Sound creation: Pierre-Alexandre Lampert.

Souleymane Bah

Journalist, politically engaged citizen, Souleymane Bah says he entered theatrical writing by breaking and entering. His first text 

Dance with the Devil

 (read in the RFI 2019 cycle) dates from 2015 and already denounces the madness of political regimes where all democracy is confiscated. Exiled in France since the end of 2016, he continued his work as an author with 

Never two without prey

,

 Diata,

 then with 

the Cargo

 crowned by the RFI Théâtre 2020 * Prize. Accompanied by the Atelier des artistes en exile, and benefiting from numerous residencies linked to the NORA grant and the RFI prize, Souleymane Bah continues his exploration of the absurdity of the world with the trilogy devoted to the violence that man is capable of. 'inflict to conquer or confiscate power. He created his play

Dance with the Devil

,

On the lawn

of Hakim Bah,

The castles of the alley

in Bilia Bah and staged several texts by Koffi Kwahulé.

La Cargaison

will be premiered in 2022 at the Zébrures d'automne in Limoges in a staging by the author.

* Prize organized in partnership with the Institut français, the Institut français in Saint-Louis du Sénégal, the SACD, Les Francophonies - From writing to the stage, Open Theater and the Normandy-Rouen CDN.

It's okay everyone!

The cycle is coordinated by Pascal Paradou, deputy director of RFI in charge of cultural operations and Francophonie, and directed by director Armel Roussel whose company (e) utopia participates in the production with the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International.

It also benefits from the support of the SACD, within the framework of its radio cultural action and of the French Institute.

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On air

Presentation: Pascal Paradou.

Production and sound recording: Fabien Mugneret and Nicolas Benita.

On-line

Writing and coordination on rfi.fr: Siegfried Forster (with the collaboration of Sonia Borelva).

Photos: Pascal Gély.

Videos: Romain Ferré.

To listen to other readings of "Ca va, ça va le monde!"

»⇒ click here

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