Sonia Chiambretto Oasis Love

[Theatre]

"As if using the spoken word was like starting a riot ". For the author and director Sonia Chiambretto, the poetic driving force behind her piece Oasis Love is to be found in the meaning of the French word émeute, meaning "riot", but whose literal meaning is "to create emotion”.

Why does the appearance of the forces of law and order in housing estates on the peripheries of major cities prompt, almost always, in a reflex movement to flee, the running away of the youngsters that live there, and within the same movement, the ensuing chase by police officers? In Oasis Love, Sonia Chiambretto uses this question as the starting point for a piece, characterized by a resolutely hybrid form, born from an extensive process of documentation, enquiry and writing on the subject of the ambiguity of our relationship with authority. Oasis Love explores the poetic might of the chase, its exaltation, and exhausted bodies. That of a youth which runs and finds new life and freshness in this thing which makes the world go round: love. Before our eyes a space is constructed in which the rules of living together are brashly reinvented, throwing light on something akin to the sense-led atlas of a collective whole which, little by little, becomes a futuristic oasis.