Description
In his latest creation, Charles Tordjman gives voice to the words of the ancient poet Aeschylus. Written in 465 B.C., the tragedy Les Suppliantes recounts the flight of the fifty daughters of Danaos, destined to be forcibly married off to their cousins.
To escape these incestuous unions, they crossed the sea and landed in Argos to seek asylum from King Pelasgos. They face a major political dilemma: either welcome them in the name of sacred law, at the risk of provoking war, or hand them over to their pursuers.
For Charles Tordjman, staging Les Suppliantes means making this 2,500-year-old cry of insubordination against brutality and domination resonate. In a deliberately spare, archaic yet contemporary form, the polyphonic voices of this chorus of exiled young women unfold through a set of TVs and videos. Cradled by the raw presence of the ancient stones of the Cimiez Arena, Aeschylus' tragedy will sound like a timeless echo: that of women who refuse, that of exiles who knock on doors, that of peoples summoned to choose between fear and hospitality.
With Céline Camara, Geoffroy Guerrier, Julie Pilod, Assane Timbo
And the Suppliantes chorus [on screen] Belfin Bolat, Dina Boutayacht, Naila Bouzefour, Mira Danhach, Shaïna Gripascus, Mya Hildenbrand, Inès Ihaddadene, Léa Lemoy, Charline Noël, Aycan Ulussal, Dgenna Vayrelles, Dilara Yildiz
