Mères Méditerranées - performance

The voices of mothers are rarely heard: they carry, raise, lose, transmit, protect, laugh, exile and resist. In the Mediterranean, there is a sea, but above all a chorus of mothers, too often relegated to silence. The idea is not to "represent" women trapped in a folk archetype, but to invite them to speak out, from their roots, in their kitchens, on the telephone, in the cemetery. Talk about their children, their countries, the sea as horizon, danger or memory. The aim is to collect voices, gestures, struggles and silences: a Greek woman singing a lullaby, a Moroccan woman laughing at her "artist" son, a Syrian woman facing the sea that has swallowed too many of her own... 23 women from Marseille, from 23 countries around the Mediterranean, will lend body and voice to this space. On the border between the intimate and the political, this chorus of women will draw an emotional cartography of the Mediterranean, in a monumental performance combining stage, film and living archives.