Sébastien Kheroufi
La mort du Môme
novembernov 6 - december – dec 6
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Friday november 6
19h30
Saturday november 7
17h
Tuesday november 10
19h30
Wednesday november 11
19h30
Thursday november 12
19h30
Friday november 13
19h30
Saturday november 14
17h
Tuesday november 17
19h30
Wednesday november 18
19h30
Thursday november 19
19h30
Friday november 20
19h30
Saturday november 21
17h
Tuesday november 24
19h30
Wednesday november 25
19h30
Thursday november 26
19h30
Friday november 27
19h30
Saturday november 28
17h
Tuesday december 1
19h30
Wednesday december 2
19h30
Thursday december 3
19h30
Friday december 4
19h30
Saturday december 5
17h
Tuesday december 8
19h30
Wednesday december 9
19h30
Thursday december 10
19h30
Friday december 11
19h30
Saturday december 12
17h
Text and staging by Sébastien Kheroufi. With Amine Adjina, Oulaya Amamra, Elodie Bouchez, Lou-Adriana Bouziane, Casey, Ulysse Dutilloy-Liégeois, Benjamin Grangier, Reda Kateb, Laurent Sauvage and 3 performers in professional insertion. Dramaturgical collaboration Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois. Choreographic eyes Nacera Belaza. Lighting design Marie-Christine Soma and Diane Guerin. Set design Benjamin Lebreton. Sébastien Kheroufi is assisted by Louise Kretzschmar. Set construction by the workshops of La Colline — National Theatre and the Centre Pompidou. Production La Tendre Lenteur. The company La Tendre Lenteur is supported by Céline Martinet — Tapioca Production.
The Centre Pompidou, La Colline — National Theatre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this performance and present it in co-production.
As part of the Centre Pompidou’s Constellation programme.
The Fondation de France is partnering with the Festival d’Automne to provide artistic support for Sébastien Kheroufi.
From the dining hall of an Emmaüs hostel, where he found his father lying dead at the age of 17 years old, Sébastien Kheroufi retraces a story of an intimate, social kind. Between family memories, heritage and the fragmentation of identity, La mort du Môme questions what society takes and what the living leave behind.
"Bury me where I’ve lived". These are the Father’s parting wishes. A testament consisting of one sentence. A heritage of one night, and which will tear apart the family, society and the body of the Kid (or ‘môme’ in French). The final chapter of a triptych set in motion with Antigone in 2023 and continued with Par les villages in 2024, this first text by Sébastien Kheroufi furthers an exploration of tragedy in a radically contemporary way. The piece aims to open up this heritage by paying homage to “bodies from nowhere", namely those of the exiled, immigrants, and the invisible. For Sébastien Kheroufi, the construction of identity happens in an in-between place: between France and Algeria, between Emmaüs hostels in Paris and the ranks of prestigious national conservatories for the performing arts. In the background to this is the disappearance from view of the Kid, or in other words, the pivotal moment when childhood fades away before an outline of a possible future has been drawn up. What emerges at this point is what has been lost, or hidden away, and which certain among us continue to search for, come what may.
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