Quand la ville se lève

Quand la ville se lève, is a long-term piece, a play I wrote over two years, alternating periods of actual writing with sessions of research, workshops and meetings with residents and players in regional planning.

A documented piece
This subject is dense and complex. It sometimes made me want to clarify it, to explain it. This required multiple stages in which I unfolded these issues in an almost didactic way, only to let fiction emerge. And it's each time that fiction has imposed itself, that theater has reappeared to finally take its full place.

I make a point of documenting myself so that spectators can recognize themselves, and never feel betrayed. This documentation is also fundamental to grasping the complexity of a system and escaping (as far as possible) the binary discourses that surround us. But I believe in fiction as a fundamental tool for feeling and thinking freely about the world. Following on from L'Araignée, this play is highly documented, but not documentary, a play in which I have worked to ensure that each situation and each character unfolds a kaleidoscopic complexity, which can question our compromises to systems we would otherwise like to denounce, and which attempts to recount the intimate and collective modalities of resistance. (...)