Hubert Colas, Sonia Chiambretto
Superstructure
novembernov 6 – 22
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© Hervé Bellamy ©
© Hervé Bellamy ©
Thursday november 6
20h
Friday november 7
20h
Saturday november 8
18h
Sunday november 9
15h
Wednesday november 12
20h
Thursday november 13
20h
Friday november 14
20h
Saturday november 15
18h
Sunday november 16
15h
Tuesday november 18
20h
Wednesday november 19
20h
Thursday november 20
20h
Friday november 21
20h
Saturday november 22
18h
Superstructure, freely adapted from the first two parts of the book Gratte-ciel by Sonia Chiambretto (edition L'Arche, 2021). Adaptation, staging and scenography Hubert Colas. With (ongoing) Ahmed Fattat, Isabelle Mouchard, Perle Palombe, Nastassja Tanner, Manuel Vallade. Son Frédéric Viénot. Video Pierre Nouvel. Lights Fabien Sanchez, Hubert Colas. Costumes Fred Cambier. Stage designer Andrea Baglione. Production assistants Lisa Kramarz, Salomé Michel. General management Nils Doucet. Video management Hugo Saugier.
Production Diphtong Co
Coproduction Théâtre National de Strasbourg; Théâtre de Liège; MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – National Stage
With the support of the Insertion Fund for Young Dramatic Artists, the Drac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur – Ministry of Culture, the Southern Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and the Spedidam
The decor was made by the workshops of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg
The full text of Sonia Chiambretto is published and represented by L'Arche
Le Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers – CDN and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this show as a co-realisation.
Its plans drawn up in the 1930s by Le Corbusier, a so-called Cité Radieuse, named Obus, was to be built around an eighteen kilometre-long block of flats in Algiers. The project never actually saw the light of day, but it is this dystopian city, superimposed on reality, that provides the setting for Superstructure by Sonia Chiambretto and Hubert Colas.
How can a living body carry with it the ghosts of stories belonging to a traumatic past and those of an uprooted population? By means of her characteristic raw and musical language and an exploratory approach that is unique to her, the poet and writer Sonia Chiambretto continues her quest for identity by looking into the testimonies and archive-based material she has collected. In a documentary account blending different medium on stage, Hubert Colas and Sonia Chiambretto bring to the forefront a polyphony of different figures that together makes up a journey through the history of contemporary Algeria. It deals with the decade of the dark years (1990-2000), the events of the civil war (1957 to 1962), but also the future. The undying desire for a better future is palpable. In contrast to any form of didacticism, what shines through is that of a thought in motion. At the crossroads between architectural fable and memorial project, Superstructure reveals how colonial constructions leave their mark both on a country’s history and the innermost lives of its inhabitants.
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