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Addio Mamma
Show created in 2004 within the project "A singular approach: the theatre as means to assert oneself as citizen of the world ". Performance created around hypothetical after war stories worsen by a crisis situation, where barter and black market are at the core of every relationship, where money, unique reference point, has lost its value. The performance was on tour in Bremen (Germany), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Chalon-sur-Saône (France), Antwerp (Belgium), and Palermo (Italy) in 2004-2005.
Addio Mamma was first created in l’Espace des Arts de Chalon-sur-Saône. Afterwards it went on tour for more than 20 performances around France and Europe : Le Cargo Hors les Murs in Meylan/ Théâtre Massalia / Théâtre National La Criée in Marseille / Mercat de les Flors / Greek festival in Barcelona (Spain) * / Festival Theater Spektakel in Zurich (Switzerland) * / Théâtres en Dracénie in Draguignan / WUK Theater in Vienna (Austria) * / Lille 2004 (Villette hors les murs) * / CDDB Théâtre of Lorient / Schwankhalle, Bremen (Germany) / Kampnagel, Hamburg (Germany) / Théâtre de l’Espace in Besançon / Théâtre de Cavaillon / Antwerp (Belgium), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Plovdiv (Bulgaria) (*¿Hasta Cuándo?, variation of the performance Addio Mamma).
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Director’s note
This performance consists of a series of small stories talking about a certain resistance to the emptiness and oblivion. Declension of power situations, from the smallest to the biggest, where one has nothing and the other just a little bit more. Lively and vigorous children and adults become characters hanging on life with spite, humour and despair. You find the lonely and independent refusing any kind of authority, the servile, those who stick more or less to an elderly to gain a certain comfort and those who are hesitating – it’s the eternal tale of the wolf and the dog. Sometimes, you also find friendship or complicity in situations where everybody comes together in a kind of trivial party after a specially fructuous plundering where they can evoke the past and laugh over the " well-off ".
Christiane Véricel
“On stage fragments of metal, makeshift cans, wild land and ruins, mark out a track, with projectors as a background, where children, adults and teenagers, try to fight their way to survive, tearing down goods, clothes and money, and living from barter and burglary, desperately clinging on to life with spite and humour. Addio Mamma is a universal and poetical tale. This show explores serious topical subjects through a dynamic acting and a voluntary play form. But there is also, in the background, a lot of friendship, of complicity between characters, gathering around an oldest, giving a trivial party that suddenly reveals, through dancing, each comedian’s culture bursting on stage. »
Annabelle Kempf, La Provence
Distribution : Conception and staging, Christiane Véricel. Light engineer, Michel Theuil. Original music, Louis Sclavis. General stage management, Bruno Corona. Comedians: Rohi Ayadi, Franck Kayap, Larissa Sienni, Rahaman Habibur and children from France and Sicily.
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