LEBANON
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRYSTÈLE KHODR
Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon (Grande salle)
19th and 21th october – 9.pm
22th october – 4.pmRunning time 1h30
Tarif 1, 2 and 3
Recommended for ages 15 and up
Show in arabic with french subtitles
What is an “ordeal”? When justice eludes men, it’s the last resort: God’s judgement through a physical ordeal. Witnessing the failure of governance in Lebanon since the end of the civil war, four actors create their own trial by ordeal for one night. They defend an intimate heritage that has been destroyed and is threatened to be erased forever. Against the backdrop of Henrik Ibsen’s The Pretenders to the Crown, Chrystèle Khodr questions her own position and that of her generation in relation to the ruins and legacy of the war and Lebanon’s history. The key events of the 90s intersect with fiction to allow the actors to escape their victim status.
And to free themselves from the patriarchal power that assigns men to construction and war, in a context where bodies suffer from the failure to build a state. In the field of ruins where the play is set, the most burning question remains that of justice: is it still possible in Lebanon? And if so, how can we take action to bring it about?
©Marie Clauzade
Conception, écriture et mise en scène Chrystèle Khodr
librement inspiré de Les Prétendants à la Couronne d’Henrik Ibsen
Assistant à la mise en scène Walid Saliba
Avec Roy Dib, Élie Njeim, Rodrigue Sleiman, Tarek Yaacoub
Scénographie, lumière Nadim Deaibes Composition sonore Ziad Moukarzel
Production Théâtre des 13 vents CDN Montpellier
Coproduction théâtre Garonne scène européenne – Toulouse, Théâtre Nanterre – Amandiers – Centre dramatique national, La Comédie, Centre dramatique national de Reims, Scène Nationale d’Albi – Tarn, FONDOC – Fonds de soutien à la création et à la diffusion de la Région Occitanie
Avec le soutien de La Chartreuse Villeneuve-lez-Avignon – CNES – Programme NAFAS – Association des Centres culturels de rencontre (ACCR) du Ministère de la Culture, Printemps des Comédiens dans le cadre du Warmup
Avec l’aide de l’ONDA – Office national de diffusion artistique
Le projet est lauréat de l’Ibsen Scope 2019
