K Samka

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Paris, 2027. Since women have been speaking and we have been listening to them, new pathologies have appeared, which affect both sexes: new fears, anxieties and phobias, new OCD... so many new symptoms which alert the WHO and the community scientist.

To deal with this, the La Pitié Salpetrière hospital has just opened a new post-metoo care and research unit, led by Professor Rose Spillerman, an iconoclastic neuropsychiatrist, flanked by her unwavering assistant Mario, head of the choir of the hospital.

Today, accompanied by her sister Marguerite, Iris is placed under observation because recently Iris suddenly stopped speaking. Is she carrying too heavy a secret or is she haunted by a woman from the past as Marguerite thinks? From the most traditional to the most experimental, all means will be good to advance research and elucidate the Iris case. The hospital room then becomes the place of all fictions, of all phantasmagoria.

"We will sing when we can no longer speak, we will dance when words no longer have meaning. There will be totally written silent scenes. As for music, I need its vibrations to enter the flesh of emotions through a door other than that of words. More than ever, I need its energy, its evocative power, to try to grasp the chaos of the world that is ours, and get through it safe and sound. I need her to write the unspeakable."
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On our mind
A post-Metoo Phantasmagoria
Text and Direction Nathalie Fillion
Play : Marieva Jaime-Cortez, Rafaela Jirkovsky,
Manon Kneusé, Damien Sobieraff
Choregraphy : Jean-Marc Hoolbecq
Scénography and costume : Charlotte Villermet
Sound : Estelle Lembert
Light : Denis Desanglois
General management and lighting management : Sam Dineen or Thierry Capéran
Music from Stéfano Landi, Christophe, Velvet underground, B52’s, Nathalie Fillion.

The text was read on the 18th of July 2022 at the Festival of Avignon within the framework of "Spirit of Avignon", cycle of unpublished works readings at the Palais des papes - Cloître Benoît XII.