Isis Antigone ou la Tragédie des Corps dispersés (Isis Antigone or the Tragedy of the scattered bodies)
A renowned company that has scoured the theatrical stages of Africa, America and Asia is falling apart. No one knows why. One day, the director invites his team to a brainstorming session to relaunch his theatrical machine. Rehearsal or performance? The story of actors and directors, between fiction and reality, summons great myths : those of Isis and Antigone.
Impossible bereavements unravel in a fascinating game of choir and body.
The story engages the memory of actors and characters, myths and the present to exorcise the future. Through a segmented writing just like the memory of artists, games based on storytelling, mime, mask, song, music and dance, create a theater that blows, a theater of breath that adapts to all spaces…even empty ones.
“Stories are reincarnated. A tale with plants and animals is reincarnated in what men call their great History. A myth is reincarnated in a news item.” Kossi Efoui
Companies
Gakokoé (France) ; ZITIComania (Togo) ; Parole en scène (Bénin) ; Compagnie Kandima (Burkina Faso)
Writing, theater staging
Kossi Efoui
Gaëtan Noussouglo
Marcel Djondo
Artistic team
Actress, director and writer: Odile Sankara
Comedy, Actress, writer: Florisse Adjanohoun
Storyteller, actor, director and musician: Béno Kokou Allouwasio Sanvee
Actor, storyteller and kora player : Roger Atikpo
Percussionnist : Anani Gbeteglo
Storyteller, actor and musician : Eustache Bowokabati Kamouna
Lighting technician
Petit Daniel Duevi Tsibiaku
Et que mon règne arrive (let my kingdom arrive)
Could global sorority be nothing more than an illusion for African women in search of a new hope: that of being the engine of world transformation? How can we be recognized and listened to when we have been denied for decades, how can we escape guilt, how can we claim to be one of the great African female figures who fought, weapons in hand, to defend their freedom, at the same time as that of men? The sub-Saharan African must both recover her memory and defend her intimate and spiritual knowledge to « imagine the reign of the feminine ».
Text: Léonora Miano
Director : Odile Sankara, assisted by Ali K. Ouédraogo
Actors : Florisse Adjanohoun, Safourata Kaboré, Emmanuel Rotoubam Mbaïdé
Scenography: Yssouf Yaguibou
Choreography: Salia Sanou
