Nôt

Because he has been deceived, the sultan has vowed to have the woman he married the day before executed every morning. Scheherazade volunteers to marry him and tells him a tale every night, the ending of which she interrupts in the morning, thus postponing his execution. In The Thousand and One Nights, a masterpiece of Arab literature, Marlene Monteiro Freitas sees an exercise in survival. From the oral tradition, these tales have retained the energy of stories that circulate and are constantly reinvented. The Cape Verdean choreographer uses gesture to translate this flow of words that generate, cross and contradict each other. The stage becomes an ambiguous space in which vice and virtue, the great and the small, desire and its shadow clash. In the courtyard of the Palais des Papes, NÔT adds a night to infinity.