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coproduction Festival de Liège / Théâtre National / Groupov / Théâtre & Publics
Dorcy Rugamba / Jacques Delcuvellerie / Younouss Diallo
Theatre / Belgium

Three actors on an open stage invest the political ground as one goes into a fight taking position looking each other up and down pushing each other around! In the on going quarrels about the positive rule of colonisation the question is to listen the strong and without concessions voice of the “bastards” born of the arranged marriages between the ancient settlers and their ancient citizens. In the name of what does one nation allow itself to dispose of another one? Other wise: what have the Africans done with 40 years of independence? At these times when we oppose memories, the Holocaust with the black slavery, are there any ties that link the great crimes against humanity together? Is there not any relation between Native Americans extermination and XXth century’s genocides? At the time of Christian revival and Islamic fundamentalism, the state terror against the suicidal terrorism, the war of the worlds and civilizations, we want to question this “God” who reinvests the public eye and indicates more and more the political directions. In detail we will study the criminal record of this candidate for the supreme nomination. Now that ultra liberalism rules the world we are going to question the relationship between capital and human life, religion, with the sovereignty of people and nations, and with war and peace. With humour and poetry, anger and lucidity we are going to attempt to travel through our era from the point of view of serfs, workers, slaves, moujiks, wogs, immigrants, aborigines, native Americans, niggers from Africa and elsewhere, yids, arabs… all those who through history have had to pay with their blood and often their existence to the imposed rhythm of the world. The term “Bloody niggers” is not used to designate a specific “race” but a community of destinies. It is about all those who one day or another were considered by humanity as being less and were treated so. This show is based before all things on Orality and could level-headedly use other forms of expression that belong to theatre, from music to video, from acting to dance, from word to song in a minimalist lay out, easily transported.

Jacques Delcuvellerie, Younouss Diallo, Dorcy Rugamba

Author: Dorcy Rugamba- Stage direction: Jacques Delcuvellerie- Conception and adaptation: Younouss Diallo, Dorcy Rugamba, Pierre Etienne- Video direction and creation: Jean-François Ravagan- Musical score: Pierre Etienne- Soundtrack assistant: Jean-Pierre Urbano- Stage management: Romain Gueudré- Trainee assistant: Virginie Demilier- Co production: Le Theâtre National, le Festival de Liège, le Groupov, with the support of Theâtre & Publics- The foto is a sculpture by Ousmane Sow

Duration 2h
The show is in french