The playwright and actor Moanda Daddy Kamono performs his introspective text “Profile” on stage at the MC93, directed by Magali Tosato. He looks back on discrimination in the world of theatre, on his difficult childhood in Kinshasa, on exile, on the suffering of ordinary racism.
“Profile” is a strong, committed and poetic text, spoken by the actor who wrote it, on a theater set. At his side on the stage, a musician, a multi-instrumentalist, Rodriguez Vangama, whose rock and jazz notes married to Congolese popular music come to mingle with words that tell of a life in Congo, the war, the loss of the father, exile, but also the love of the theatre.
Because it is indeed theater that is involved. It all starts with a casting, and a refusal with this sentence: “you don’t correspond to the profile I’m looking for”. A sentence that will trigger a flood of memories and questions.
In the staging, Magali Tosato. And on stage, the actor is Moanda Daddy Kamono, who is also the author of the text. “Profile” is to be applauded until Sunday January 23 in Bobigny, at the MC93, the house of culture of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Rebroadcast at 11:10 p.m. UT on the RFI Africa antenna of the VMDN program on Thursday, September 23 with Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Lévy