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Madagascar: improvisation to promote theater on the island
Like every year, the month of March in Madagascar coincides with a series of events around the theater.
The Miangaly company, at the origin of the “Rallye Moi(s) Théâtre” initiative for seven years, decided this year to show another facet of the discipline: improvisation.
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Part of the Miangaly theater company's improvisation team trains in the garden of the Ampitatafika cultural center, March 5, 2024;
before his theatrical improvisation performances for the Rallye Moi(s) Théâtre, which takes place until the end of the week.
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With our correspondent in Ampitatafika,
Sarah Tétaud
“
Meet-your-husband-tomorrow!”
»
The actors
train for the “epistolary with constraint” test: they must declaim a letter created from scratch live, and in perfect synchronization.
“
Let's try to see if each time we finish a sentence, we can not systematically use the same descending intonations.
»
Fela Razafiarison, the director of the Miangaly company, leads this training.
This theater company organizes rehearsals outside Antananarivo, to attract a new audience and arouse new passions around this practice.
That day, the rehearsal took place at the Kolomahaolo cultural space in Ampitatafika, a suburb
of the Malagasy capital
.
Making theater accessible outside the capital
According to the director, relocating the theater and promoting improvisation is a bet on the future: “
The concentration in the city of all that is
cultural and artistic
is still important in Tana. We have this desire to give back what we let's have theater here, accessible also elsewhere than in the city center.
And theatrical improvisation is a way for us to make theater even more accessible!
“, she explains.
“
From a first theatrical improvisation workshop, participants immediately understand the issues of the characters, stories, etc.
And above all, anyone - a child, an adult, a teenager, someone a little older - is directly drawn into theater, thanks to improvisation.
Because it’s very dynamic, playful… and fun!
“, says Fela Razafiarison.
The company hopes to launch the first Malagasy improvisation league this year, to attract more members and pave the way for international competitions.
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