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Madame M

Theater

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17.09.24 7pm + 18.09.24 · 8:30pm

Languages : FR

All audiences

Duration: 1h

Place: Riches-Claires

This female voice recounts the world in which she lives. A world that is accelerating, wearing down human beings and nature. A world that hurts bodies and souls. A world that reduces young people's hopes for the future, leaving them with only a depleted earth as their sole alternative.

Madame M shows courage by raising questions that revolt us, paralyse us, disturb us. Like the echo of a whisper emerging into the world.
In the pleasure aisle, where we find things that are not necessary but make us feel good, a burnt, hairless orangutan appears in her shopping trolley and she feels that no one else can see what she sees.

This quiet little woman finds herself face to face with her conscience, her contradictions, her fragility, her loneliness… Mrs M finds herself at an impasse. In the aisles of Colruyt, she becomes aware of the struggle to live today in accordance with her values and her generosity.
From that moment on, the lives of Mrs M and her family will be completely turned upside down.

The text is written as a narrative. A narrative between madness and despair in a world encountered on a daily basis. The narrative of a moment when a character loses control. While questioning the audience’s conscience, Madame M is a generous, touching and funny play.

Distribution
With Martine Léonet and Mathias Dalle Musical composition Mathias Dalle Artistic collaboration and dramaturgy Sarah Brahy Artistic assistant Naïma Triboulet Costumes Marie-Hélène Balau Lighting design Pierre Clément Set design Claudine Maus Make-up and hairstyling Dominique Brevers Stage management Baudouin Lefebvre A production of Cie Espèces de... In co-production with Arsenic2, with the collaboration of the CPCR and the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Région Wallonne.
La Compagnie Espèces de…
The Espèces de… company ‘To take the people's anger and give it back to them so that it becomes part of our collective memory’. Dario Fo Espèces de... , an all-female creative collective, has been developing artistic projects aimed at individual and collective emancipation through the practice of theatre for over 20 years. Our collective creations, our work in the field, our experience as actresses and the frequent questioning of our creative processes inscribe our work in the theatre-action approach. We have deliberately chosen to set up in the Saint-Léonard district in Liège, a working-class neighbourhood where over 90 different nationalities live together and where we have patiently built strong intersectional bonds. The priority of our artistic work is to create with and for people who are vulnerable because of their social or economic situation, or because they belong to a minority, and whose voices are often ignored or even socially repressed. The various crises we are experiencing (health, energy, political), the consequences of which are already having an impact on citizens and will continue to do so in the long term, have highlighted the urgent need for us and our partners to join forces and work hard to bring people together, fostering ‘the Meeting’. Decompartmentalising, bringing people together, pooling strengths and resources, co-constructing – these are the vital impulses we believe are much needed today to combat isolationism, individualism, extremism, and social, racial and gender divisions
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