Theater: Guy Régis Junior and Christian Gonon, the absence of the father

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Rehearsal of the show Les Ciq times when I saw my father © N.Lux

By: Pascal Paradou

1 min

Five times.

The grown-up child counts on the fingers of his hand.

He will have seen his father five times.

One day, the father left his native island, Haiti, to earn a living in the United States.

Never looking back. 

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Guy Régis Jr questions absence, memory, silence, mystery and the traces left there, before they fade away.

Guests:

- Guy Régis Jr.

, Haitian writer and director.

Author of

The five times I saw my father

published by Gallimard 

and director of the eponymous play that can be seen at

Théâtre Ouvert

until January 29. 

-

Christian Gonon

, actor.

Member of the

Comédie-Française.

Also with a tribute from Hassane Kouyaté

, director of Francophonies in Limousin

, to Monique Blin, co-founder of Francophonies in Limoges. 

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