Inconditionnelles (Hopelessly Devoted)
"Unconditional" is acceptance and submission with no strings attached, but also commitment without reserve, what is taken, suffered, but also what is given, absolutely...
Inconditionnelles (Hopelessly Devoted) celebrates love. Love that blinds, degrades and locks you up. The love of two women, Chess and Serena, that is so powerful it creates that perfect space where "nothing is missing". In this play by Kae Tempest, there is what is outside and what is inside, the prison world and the other side, with its promises, its dangers and its possible failures. And then a third space, the inner life. And it is from the porosity of these spaces that beauty and the poetic act emerge. Finally, Dan Carey's music fills the prison universe. It is music that forms the basis of friendship, the secret language between two women that ultimately seals the community.
• Choreographer, artistic director, author and musician Dorothée Munyaneza (°Kigali, 1982) is developing a fiery body of work. By taking hold of memory and the body, she starts from reality and carries the voices of those who are silenced, to make the silences heard and to see the scars of History. Munyaneza recently performed at Kaaitheater with Mailles, and Toi, Moi... Tituba.
text Kae Tempest│music Dan Carey│translation and direction Dorothée Munyaneza│musical collaboration Ben LaMar Gay│ scenography and lights Camille Duchemin│ costumes Lila John│artistic coordination Virginie Dupray ⎸ assistant director Lisa Como│with Sondos Belhassen, Bwanga Pilipili, Davide-Christelle Sanvee and Grace Seri ⎸ production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord ⎸ coproduction Théâtre National de Strasbourg ; Festival d’Automne à Paris ; Théâtre de Namur ; La Muse en Circuit – Centre national de création musicale ; L'Arc - Scène Nationale Le Creusot ⎸ with the support of la Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon – Centre national des écritures du spectacle, Cercle de l'Athénée et des Bouffes du Nord and its foundation housed at the academy des beaux-arts ⎸ set and costumes realized by the workshops of Théâtre National de Strasbourg
Inconditionnelles (Hopelessly Devoted) by Kae Tempest, translated by Dorothée Munyaneza, is published and represented by L’ARCHE – éditeur & agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com
This performance includes scenes of attempted suicide and verbal and physical abuse.
