Alexander Zeldin

On the Berthier stage of the Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe, The Circle Project (2023) and The Public Storyteller (2024) continue this research into the theatre practices of the MTA. Shot in Marseille, The Circle centers upon Mia and Luca, two French youths from a North African immigrant background, in an attempt to find the all-too rare traces of Djellali Kamal, a member of Al Assifa and an anonymous MTA candidate in the 1974 French presidential election. The Public Storyteller reactivates, in Morocco, Djellali Kamal’s epic story through the voice of a public storyteller, revealing the poetic and spectral dimension of this forgotten candidate.

Two years after the Focus devoted to them at the Festival d'Automne, Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg conjure up an open-ended world populated by avatars. By means of identical faces and pre-recorded voices, the same traumatic memories are played out over and over again.