Shéda – Holland Festival

The Congolese director Dieudonné Niangouna creates theatre in which the word has the strenght of a lion and the ferocity of a panther. His words are designed to hit hard, harder than he bullet of a Kalashnikov. In Shéda, Niangouna employs his expressive, hybrid and vivid language to create a place of refuge after an 'apocalypse'. The characters gathering there embody fallen gods, heroes from bygone times, who have returned as ghosts or in dreamlike apparitions. In Shéda, they try to redeem their humanity, while sharing their personal histories and their memories of the end of the world.

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text Dieudonné Niangouna direction Dieudonné Niangouna scenography Patrick Janvier assistant scenography Ludovic Louppé, Papythio Matoudidi light design Xavier Lazarini sound design Christina Clar costumes Vélica Panduru choreography DeLaVallet Bidiefono combat preparations DeLaVallet Bidiefono music Pierre Lambla, Armel Malonga performance Pierre Lambla, Armel Malonga production la Comédie de Reims - CDN, IX Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy, Festival d’Avignon, Holland Festival with the support of Equatorial Congo Airlines, French Embassy Congo, French Institut in Brazzaville, Ferme du Buisson scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, Région Île-de-France, TOTAL E en P Congo, Dieudonné Niangouna, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse; CND Centre national de la danse; Le ..., Association Beaumarchais-SACD, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DRAC Île-de-France, Congolese Embassy in France, CIRCLES, Institut Français cast Marie-Charlotte Biais, Laetitia Ajanohun, Madalina Constantin, Pierre-Jean Etienne, Frédéric Fisbach, Wakeu Fogaing, Diariétou Keita, Abdon Fortuné Koumbha, Harvey Massamba, Mathieu Montanier, Criss Niangouna

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