“La Diagonale du Void”, in memory of forgotten children

La Diagonale du Void in memory of forgotten children

When the theater explores the dark corners of history… This is the mission that the Franco-Romanian director Alexandra Badea has given herself with her trilogy Points of no returnthe last part of which is played at the Théâtre de la Colline, in Paris, until February 6.

After the massacre of Thiaroye under colonization, the repression of the demonstration of October 17, 1961 during the Algerian war, The Diagonal of the Voidhis new play, puts the spotlight on “the children of Creuse”, these children from Reunion forced to leave their island to repopulate a rural department of metropolitan France.

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