[In full] Michael Disanka (Democratic Republic of Congo): "See you tomorrow, my death"
Audio 55:54
The actor Edson Anibal, during the reading of “Tomorrow, my death”, by Michael Disanka, in Avignon, July 15, 2021. © Pascal Gely
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62 mins
In a bar like one can see in a peripheral district of Kinshasa, it is the story of a young Kinshasa whistleblower named "IL" who finds himself in possession of information compromising a large number of personalities of his. country.
He must make a choice between denouncing while knowing that his life will depend on it or being silent, being silent like everyone else.
Confronted with fear and doubt, HE begins to hallucinate under the loving eye of the trigger-happy landlady-cop.
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He imagines several possible deaths in which he sees himself in the skin of other deceased whistleblowers such as Floribert Chebeya, assassinated in 2010. "
I wrote this play in an exploded structure like my theater,"
says the author ,
because I write as I speak, that is to say in an irreverent way with the syntax
”.
Read by Edson Anibal and Gioia Kayaga.
With Rokia Bamba (DJ).
The teaser video
Rokia Bamba, Edson Anibal and Gioia Kayaga, during the readings of “See you tomorrow, my death” by Michael Disanka.
© RFI
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The video, the complete
(available from 8/21 at 5:15 p.m.)
Michael disanka
Michael Disanka is an actor, director and author of a work that he defines as "a scratching theater, a political theater nourished by the city of Kinshasa".
He created the Collectif d'Art-d'Art with Christiana Tabaro and his career was marked by some decisive encounters, including that with Dieudonné Niangouna who directed two of his texts
on May 31, 2012
and
La Poupoupète
and with Faustin Linyekula.
SACD Prize at the Festival Impatience 2020,
Sept Mouvements Congo
was performed at the Festival de Marseille, at the KVS in Brussels and at 104 in Paris.
His next piece
Géométrie de vies
will be premiered at the Rencontres àchelle Festival in Marseille this fall.
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: Jérémie Besset and Thibault Baduel.
Technical coordination: Benjamin Avayou
On-line
Writing and coordination on rfi.fr: Siegfried Forster (with the collaboration of Sonia Borelva).
Photos: Pascal Gély.
Videos: Dominique Fiant, Romain Ferré, Leo Bernard, Christophe Valette.
To listen to other readings of "Ca va, ça va le monde!" »
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