The text ” Me, Gaddafi » by playwright Véronique Kanor is staged until January 21 at La Scala in Paris by Alain Timar and performed by Serge Abatucci, actor, but also director of the Kokolampoe Drama Center in Guyana.
The first thing that strikes you is its presence. Next, its appearance. On the stage, in the center of the audience, the actor plays an actor, a West Indian actor who embodies one of the great actors in the geopolitical history of the 20th century: Muammar Gaddafi. The resemblance is striking, uncanny.
With his warm and deep voice, Serge Abatucci questions the act of embodying, through words and through the body, the time of one on stage punctuated by the reggae of Tiken Jah Fakoly. It also tells the fate of the Libyan Guide, a man with many faces and many costumes, son of a Bedouin who became a nationalist, anti-imperialist and pan-African icon, sometimes an accomplice, sometimes an enemy of the West, who will end up lynched. Through him, the show resonates ancestral anger stemming from wounds that remain gaping.
“ Me, Gaddafi » by Véronique Kanor, in a production by Alain Timar, with Serge Abatucci is on display at the Piccola Scala, the small hall of the Parisian Théâtre de la Scala until January 21.
Serge Abatucci And Alain Timar are the guests of VMDN.
Reporting : at the Galerie du jour in Paris, with the support of Agnès B. Photos by Dennis Morris, known for his famous photos of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols. Long before going to concerts, the very young photographer cut his teeth photographing his community, Caribbean immigrants in London in the 1970s. The exhibition is called “ Colored Black People “. Laura Dulieu went there for VMDN.