Rwanda 94
Driven throughout by a desire for symbolic atonement, this play is deeply moving in its artistic courage, a grand epic and tragic form sustained by an oratorio that is utterly compelling. In order to bury with dignity one person a million times and to avoid repetition, the piece modulates in every register. This route to truth consists of eyewitness accounts, choral forms, fiction, dialogue, musical comedy sketches, dreamlike scenes, a lecture, Rwandan odes and chants and television images.
The dialogue between one human being and another that occurs on stage and with each member of the audience pierces the voices of the dead. It is impossible not to feel and comprehend human suffering, not to experience the desire that it never happen again.
BY MARIE-FRANCE COLLARD, JACQUES DELCUVELLERIE, YOLANDE MUKAGASANA, JEAN-MARIE PIEMME, MATHIAS SIMONS DIRECTED BY JACQUES DELCUVELLERIE COPRODUCERS THÉÂTRE NATIONAL DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ WALLONIE-BRUXELLES, THÉÂTRE DE LA PLACE, BRUSSEL 2000, VILLE EUROPÉENNE DE LA CULTURE.
