A man's fate between myth and reality, as Laurent Gaudé knows so well how to tell it. The African destiny of Quentin Ripoll, aka Colonel Barbaque.
Laurent Gaudé continues and completes the journey of Quentin Ripoll – one of the characters from “Cris” – in a solitary drift along the Niger River: final journey, final cry, final dance. His voice emerges as death approaches, driven by a liberating fever, a trance of words flowing in unison with the river. Ripoll relives and revisits his lives: war, colonization, brotherhood, and the impossible act of forgetting that eats away at him. Adapted from one of the stories in Dans la nuit Mozambique (Actes Sud) by Laurent Gaudé. Press: La Provence: “A powerful story told like a tale, in the manner of a griot, accompanied by a harmonica, by languid rhythms that follow the river, by dimmed lights like in a virgin forest. The actor truly inhabits his character, who seems as though he were created for him. A very good moment with an African rhythm.” La Terrasse: “A trance of words.”
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Source: paris.fr — photo: cie La Parole du corps