Opéra pour les sans tombeaux
« In my escape, the one we make every generation, I see myself, shadow among shadows. I rise. I take with me all that’s left of the dead among the living. I won’t stop until I find you. I travel the exiles in reverse and the earth shatters as I reassemble our memories. Beneath my feet now, bones. Mass graves like the ones I found while searching for my family. I run over the bones, over your amputated generations and at the end of the field, I bury myself, I cover myself with the dust of my own, I join you. I am the last. No more mass graves, no more holes of memory. In my escape, for those of my blood, I have broken the shame. »
Opera pour les sans tombeaux is an immersive show combining performance, documentary and dance. We are invited to plunge into the silent violence that plagues families who have survived genocide. The violence that doesn’t stop after the ceasefire, that continues to decimate bodies and minds, and that haunts the descendants of those who had no graves. Renowned for its engaged arworks, Théâtre de l’Impie outdoes itself in a hard-hitting staging that won’t leave us indiffere