DameChevaliers, Caro Geryl, Adèle Haenel See clearly with Monique Wittig

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Concept, reading and writing Adèle Haenel based on texts by Monique Wittig, Sarah Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Elsa Dorlin. Sound design Caro Geryl. Music for the show DameChevaliers – Caro Geryl, Adèle Haenel. Dramaturgy and lighting design by Gisèle Vienne. Production and distribution by Anne-Lise Gobin and Camille Queval – Alma Office. Administration and distribution by Cloé Haas and Clémentine Papandrea.

The Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this show in partnership.

With unabashed emotion DameChevaliers delves intoMonique Wittig’s Straight Mind with their voice and sound riveted on the future. With a variable geometry the collective works tosupport activists and explore the emotion bornof collective political action.Monique Wittig had a profound impact on contemporary thoughtby revealing the political foundations oflanguage and questioning the construction of the universalthrough the prism of gender oppression. After a musical readingof Monique Wittig’s The Constant Journey the DameChevaliers collective— composed notably of drummer and musician Caro Geryl and actress Adèle Haenel—will take on the cult collection La pensée straight by the author a major figure in the Women’s Liberation Movement(MLF) and radical lesbianism and a pioneer in gender studies. In dialogue with Monique Wittig DameChevaliers sets the center stage ablaze a fire around which we gather to discuss reflect and invent a different world. Artists and audience membersgather at nightfall for a performanceto reflect together. In the palpable relief of a space-time on the margins of the world a way of thinking unfolds that restores and multiplies the power of each and every one of us. In the talking circle, emotions intertwine within us to help us see clearly.