Photo : Collage André Stas

LE JARDIN DU PARADOXE
POLITICALLY CORRECT ?

In which play are we playing?  Are we the heroes?  Throughout a whole length of time we must display solidarity with each other.  But here’s when the third parties start and the scenery changes.  From then on we must be politically correct.  Weren’t we before?  How can one look at one’s self in the mirror of life?  It is another way to look at one’s self.  It is no longer the two way mirror but one’s look that is in question.  The silvering of the background becomes opaque.
Life itself is our stage!
The Liège Festival always questions the present, and this time above all by means of life’s problems, globalisation, obesity, battlegrounds, life and death, relations with parents, inheritance and its contradictions.
To direct, or to direct ourselves in search of a scenario?  Always in search of a lost paradise, where the scenario appears to be perfect.
To live with these contradictions, without any guidelines or perhaps with doubtful reference points makes political correctness a search of a way of being.  And as usual, after the show the audience is plunged again into a world of paradoxes.
Before  “Paradox Garden” reflections and questions around the theme “politically correct?” led to a report in the January-February issue of C4 Magazine.  The sinuous, complex and ambivalent processes that have marked the way to this report, as well as some open questions that are inferred, provide the particular shading to the meetings, debates and events of “Paradox Garden”.
From “Concept Fare” to “Politically Correct” where various schools of thought will come to remind us of the burden of the past, punctuated by the voices of the cantankerous ones to “Politically Incorrect” – with one production after another from a workshop of clichés, the presentation of the “Lotto State”, or another demonstration of the art of pick-pocketing, and passing by a “Friday the Thirteenth” where the soothsayers of our future, will accomplish the magic of what we will become, accompanied by African drums.  But again, a photo-novel of ourselves on paper, on the screen and as a musical performance.  Without missing “February the fourteenth”, Saint Valentine’s, as World Masturbation Day.  And to end, a “Saturday Gras” (not Mardi Gras) as a travesty of our daily lives.   Night after night, in the enjoyment of meetings, concerts, happenings, or simply around a drink, collectively seeking a means of expression, the public will be cajoled into pleasurably prolonging their theatrical moments.

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