Ordalie| 2023
Having failed to build a nation, a century after the creation of Greater Lebanon, a group of actors, breaking with the traditional and idyllic representation of the national model, decide to create a form of an ordeal in order to conclude their involvement in this failure. The play attempts to raise the question of the games of power practiced on the bodies and desires of the post-war generation in Lebanon through the intrigue of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Pretenders”.
Credits
Concept, text and direction: Chrystèle Khodr
Performers: Rodrigue Sleiman – Élie Njeim – Roy Dib – Tarek Yacoub
Set & light design: Nadim Deaibes
Music & sound design: Ziad Moukarzel
Assistant director : Walid Saliba
Produced by: Théâtre des 13 Vents – CDN de Montpellier.
Co-produced by: Théâtre Garonne scène européenne – Théâtre Nanterre Amandiers – La Comédie CDN de Reims – Scène Nationale d’Albi – Tarn FONDOC – Fonds de soutien à la création et à la diffusion de la Région Occitanie.
With the support of: La Chartreuse Villeneuve-lez-Avignon CNES – Programme NAFAS – Association des Centres culturels de rencontre (ACCR), avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
The project was awarded an Ibsen Scope.