La Parabole du Seum
Rébecca Chaillon
In the face of the world’s rapidly growing fascist tendencies, Rébecca Chaillon breathes new life into our imagination with a science-fiction fable in which survival goes hand in hand with magic.
After Plutôt vomir que faillir, which was widely acclaimed in our house in 2024, Rébecca Chaillon’s new work echoes and references Octavia Butler’s cult novel Parable of the Sower, in which we follow a teenage girl who invents her own religion in order to survive in a devastated world. The artist wanted to take this idea further: ‘I have magical faith, and it’s one of my strategies as a Black, fat, ageing, childless lesbian woman’.
By seeking to deconstruct the mechanisms of exclusion, Rébecca Chaillon forges new mythologies focused on queer representations nourished by astrology and superstitions. She proposes a narrative in which fat, racialized, queer bodies can simply exist, free from normative injunctions. La Parabole du Seum is at once an exciting performance and an act of resistance, shifting perspectives and, above all, inciting us to dream differently.
The stories featured in this production deal with fatphobia, queerphobia, racism, transphobia, sexism and sexual violence. This show contains scenes of nudity and uses smoke.
Rébecca Chaillon is an associate artist at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Copresentation Kaaitheater
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Venue
Grande salle
Duration
2hr45
Language
fr surtitling nl, en
Kids
15+
Price
10€ > 35€
Cast
Text and direction
Rébecca Chaillon
Co-director
Céline Champinot
Cast
Yanis Boulahia
Hassan Gourniz
Loulie Houmed
Camille Léon-Fucien
Living Smile Vidya
Nabila Mekkid
Julie Teuf
Set design
Camille Riquier
Sound design
Élisa Monteil
Lighting design
Alexia Alexi
Video design and operation
Elisa Bernard
Costumes
Solenne Capmas
Creative stage manager
Suzanne Péchenart
Stage and production manager
Suzanne Péchenart
Marianne Joffre (alternating)
Lighting Operator
Chloé Roger
Selma Yaker (alternating)
Sound Operator
Élisa Monteil
Justine Pommereau (alternating)
Directing Assistant Internship
Marie Delpit
Administration and Production
Élise Bernard
Manon Crochemore
Amandine Loriol
Production Management and Development
Mélanie Charreton / Bureau O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r
Production
Compagnie Dans le ventre
Co-production
Théâtre Public de Montreuil - CDN, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, Les Nuits de Fourvière - Lyon Metropolitan Area International Festival, Comédie de Genève, Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg - scène européenne, Festival d’Avignon, Dublin Theatre Festival, tnba - Théâtre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Le Volcan - scène nationale du Havre, La Criée - Théâtre National de Marseille, Le Carreau du Temple - cultural and sports centre of the City of Paris, Théâtre Sorano - Scène conventionnée - Toulouse
Co-production as part of the Interreg VI France-Wallonia-Flanders cross-border programme - EMERGE
Le Manège Maubeuge – cross-border national theatre, Le Phénix – Valenciennes National Theatre, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Le Théâtre de Namur and Kunstencentrum VierNulVier – Ghent
A project selected by the Prospero NEW platform, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme
With the support of the Pôle International de Production et de Diffusion – SUN, the Théâtre Léo Ferré – Aulnoye-Aymeries, and Le Générateur – Gentilly
Set design by the Pôle de mutualisation de services & ressources techniques
The text was commissioned by La Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (MC93) as part of Multitude, the Seine-Saint-Denis Intercultural Biennale
La Compagnie dans le Ventre is funded by the ministry of Culture (DRAC Hauts-de-France)
Rébecca Chaillon is represented by L’Arche - Agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com
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