Fabrice Melquiot
- Live performance
- 45 min
- La Fileuse, Loos
- Pass Latitudes
Cette note qui commence au fond de ma gorge
By rejecting Bahia, Aref is rejecting everything. In this new work by Fabrice Melquiot, two lovers face off in a poetic, passionate duel, in which words and music blend together, exploring the boundaries of love, identity and exile.
Cette note qui commence au fond de ma gorge [This note which starts at the bottom of my throat] is a poignant confrontation using alexandrines and decasyllables by the writer Fabrice Melquiot. The story is based on the life of the Afghan musician Esmatullah Alizadah, who performs the role of Aref and composed the music for the work, in which we hear the dambura, the harmonium and tablas. Aref no longer loves Bahia, he has just informed her of that fact. Refusing to return to Afghanistan and the Taliban regime, he is now seeking refuge in his music, which he plans to share with other exiled friends throughout Europe. But young, headstrong, twenty-year-old Bahia is not going down without a fight. With a text which examines the quest for the self, for our lost roots and the idea of needing to flee in order to find one’s place, Aref and Bahia create a window into the world of today, where love, exile and music face off, blend and challenge each other in their battle to exist.
Accessibility infos :
- Show in French without surtitles
Biography(s)
Fabrice Melquiot is a writer, director, performer and lyricist. He is prolific, having published some sixty plays with L’Arche Éditeur and l’école des loisirs, graphic novels (La joie de lire, Gallimard et L’élan vert) and poetry collections (L’Arche and Le Castor Astral). He has been involved with several theaters and companies – the Comédie de Reims, the Scènes du Jura, the Centre Dramatique National de Vire, the Théâtre du Centaure in Marseille, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris… He has collaborated with many directors including Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Roland Auzet, Dominique Catton, Arnaud Meunier, Pascale Daniel-Lacombe, Stanislas Nordey, Marion Lévy, Ambra Senatore, Matthieu Cruciani.
His work has won many awards, and his texts have been translated into a dozen languages and are regularly performed. From 2012 to 2021, he directed the Théâtre Am Stram Gram in Geneva. In 2022, alongside Jeanne Roualet and Camille Dubois, he founded the Cosmogama workshop.
Credits
Written and directed by Fabrice Melquiot
With : Esmatullah Alizadah, Angèle Garnier
Scenography: Raymond Sarti
Stage Manager: Marie Favier
Production: Théâtre de Sartrouville et des Yvelines – CDN
With the support of Théâtre Molière – Sète, scène nationale archipel de Thau
With the artistic participation of the Jeune théâtre national
