A new wind is blowing in city B, like a burst of joy… Part of the population, after a devastating disaster, was compensated to the tune of several million CFA francs. And this upsets all human relationships, even within couples or families…
A text inspired by a real event that occurred on March 4, 2012, following the explosion of an ammunition depot in Brazzaville which destroyed part of the northern districts of the city causing 300 deaths, 2,500 injuries and thousands of people without -shelters.
We offer you the full version of this reading.
Read by Clémence Boissé, Pierre Lefebvre-Adrien, Sabine Pakora, Tadié Tuéné, Lymia Vitte. Direction: Armel Roussel. Assisted by: Romain Cinter. Musical Creation: Pierre-Alexandre Lampert.
Pierrette Mondako
Pierrette Mondako, actress and author from Congo, wrote her first play The staircase with crazy dances in 2002, when she had just created the Emeraude Pembe theater troupe with Célestin Kauset. Since then, his texts have been performed in several festivals in Africa, including The other side of the sky, raw women Or Sabi’s Fate. With Between two breaths, silence, it has already been read in It’s alright, it’s alright people! in 2020.
On the proposal of the Francophonies – From writing to the stage and the House of authors of Limoges, where the text was written during a writing residency. The author also benefited for this text from a residency at the Chartreuse with the Odyssée grant and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris with the TRAME program.
Alright everyone!
The cycle Alright, Alright World! is designed and coordinated by Pascal Paradou.
Co-production RFI, Company[e]utopia. With the support of the French Institute, the SACD for its radio cultural action, Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
The author’s visit was facilitated thanks to the support of the French Institute of Brazzaville.
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Broadcast
Presented by: Pascal Paradou.
Production and sound recording: Alice Mesnard and Nicolas Benita.
Stage technician: Victor Uhl
Technical coordination: Benjamin Avayou
On-line
Writing and coordination on rfi.fr: Siegfried Forster (in collaboration with Sonia Borelva).
Photos: Pascal Gély.
Videos: Dominique Fiant, Romain Ferré.
To listen to the other readings of “It’s okay, it’s okay people! » ⇒ click here