Décris-Ravage

Adeline Rosenstein

Much has been written about the origin of the long conflict in Palestine and Israel. The more you try to grasp history, the more it seems to escape; complexity seems to bring confusion or sometimes even treason. Décris-Ravage (destroy-describe) is a series of theatrical lectures attempting to present the relationship between Europe and its imaginary, beloved and strategical Holy Land, from Napoleon over the Balfour Declaration to the Nakba in six episodes; of which two and a half of will be presented for the first time in English. Along with her companions and the audience, French speaking Swiss and German actress, playwright and director Adeline Rosenstein goes on a pursuit of different potential futures of the past. Her historicizing approach, starting in the year 1799, is both enlightening and doomed to fail. Décris-Ravage is teaching, testifying, reading, translating and discussing the translation. Perspectives shift, relativism dissolves. What remains is intelligent, tender and humoristic theater, unique in its kind.

Text & direction : Adeline Rosenstein / with :  Isabelle Nouzha, Erbatur Çavuşoğlu & Adeline Rosenstein / space : Yvonne Harder / light & technique : Caspar Langhoff / sound : Andrea Neumann / scientific advice : Jean-Michel Chaumont , Henry Laurens, Julia Strutz & Tania Zittoun / drawings : Verena Kammerer / production : Leïla Di Gregorio & Little Big Horn / partners: Festival Echtzeitmusik, Ausland, Festival Premiers-Actes, Théâtre Océan Nord, Centre de culture ABC, Centre culturel André Malraux-scène nationale & Théâtre de la Balsamine / supported by : Bourse du soutien aux lettres du WBT/D 2013, Bourse Odyssée pour la traduction 2013, Comité Mixte Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon / Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles 2013, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Direction du Théâtre, Conseil d’aide aux projets théâtraux, Cocof & WBI

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