This documentary show is based on interviews conducted with lawyers and litigants. On stage, at the center of a bifrontal space, seven performers embody these encounters: an expert in child abduction, a father who has resorted to surrogacy or stories of domestic violence. Émilie Rousset collects these testimonies and assembles them in a device where video and acting dialogue to bring out as much the words as their silences. More than a succession of stories, Family Affairs questions the French and European justice as a place of translation of reality. It shows how intimate stories become records and how laws adjust to changing mores. The courtroom then becomes a mirror of our contemporary tensions.
Warnings: The text contains descriptions of sexual violence
Around the show
Conference of the University of Free Time
Theatre and justice: the stage as a space for deliberation
Mon. 7 December at MUCMA - 2:30/4:30
Speaker: Maxence Cambron (Lecturer at CNU Universities)
Registration with the UTL
Audiodescription and adapted surtitling
Wed. 17 and Thu. 18 February
Made by Panthea
more info: accessibilite@larose.fr
Meeting-debate "Correspondances"
Game. 18 February
Led by Maxence Cambron after the performance
In partnership with the Culture Department of the University of Lille
The eye of the melies A film echoing the show
Fri. 19 February at 8 p.m.
Cinema Le méliès, Villeneuve d'Ascq
We believe you
Film by Charlotte Devillers, Arnaud Dufeys
Today, Alice finds herself before a judge and has no right to make mistakes. She must defend her children, whose custody is in question. Will she be able to protect them from their father before it is too late?