Émilie Rousset
€8-18 [LU card]
€9 [student]
Coproduction le Lieu Unique
With Affaires familiales, Émilie Rousset continues her exploration of judicial discourse. Using filmed testimonies, she gives voice to committed lawyers specialising in family law, reenacting their speeches on stage. Bodies move through a space that evokes both the courtroom and memory. Neither a reenactment nor a plea, this theatre of listening and tension asks profound questions about what justice does with our stories and what our stories reveal of our society.
Conceived, written and directed by Émilie Rousset
Featuring: Saadia Bentaïeb, Antonia Buresi, Teresa Coutinho, Ruggero Franceschini, Emmanuelle Lafon, Manuel Vallade
Set design: Nadia Lauro
Music: Carla Pallone
Collaboration on writing: Sarah Maeght
Lighting design: Manon Lauriol
Cinematographers: Alexandra de Saint Blanquat and Joséphine Drouin Viallard
Additional cameraman Italy: Tommy
Additional cameraman Spain: Maud Sophie
Editing: Carole Borne, with the assistance of Gabrielle Stemmer
Assistant director: Elina Martinez
Sound and video equipment : Romain Vuillet
Stage and general management: Jérémie Sananes
The text of the play is based on interviews with lawyers, litigants, association leaders and members of parliament, including Fabíola Cardoso, Davide Chiappa, Anne Lassalle, Caroline Mécary, Lilia Mhissen, Isabel Moreira, Pauline Rongier and Hansu Yalaz, Marco Zaba, Neus Aragonès, Alice Bouissou, Véronique Chauveau, Michele Giarratano, Agnès Guimet, Montse Martí, Diodio Metro, Joana Mortaga, Luca Paladini, Morghân Peltier, Jennifer Tervil, Agathe Wehbé, the ARS95 Father-Child Parlour teams, the Adepape95-Repairs! 95, Protéger l'enfant, and the Oficina de comunicació de la Policia de la Generalitat - Mossos d'Esquadra.
Production: Centre Dramatique National Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire, initiated by Compagnie John Corporation (subsidized by DRAC Île-de-France and the Région Île-de-France), with the invaluable assistance of Les Indépendances(Colin Pitrat and Hélène Moulin-Rouxel)
Coproduction: Points communs - Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise ; Le Volcan - Scène Nationale du Havre ; Théâtre de la Bastille ; Le Lieu Unique Nantes ; La Comédie de Clermont- Ferrand Scène Nationale ; Scène Nationale de l’Essonne, Agora-Desnos ; Festival d’Avignon