Partout le feu

Hubert Colas

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Live performance

Pass Latitudes
Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche, Roubaix
1h25

Partout le feu is the raw, passionate text by Hélène Laurain, staged by Hubert Colas and performed by the magnificent Stéphanie Aflalo. A breathtaking solo which plunges us into the center of an anxious generation’s need to rebel, ready to do whatever it takes to spark the beginning of another future.

Laetitia was born three minutes before her twin sister Margaux, and also 37 minutes before the Chernobyl explosion. She lives in Lorraine, where the State has decided to bury all of the country’s radioactive waste. Somewhere between drunken celebrations and lightning raids, she and her gang– Taupe, Fauteur, Thelma and, Dédé – organize a spectacular sabotage, a prelude to an enormous final fire. A raging fire which will destroy as much as it illuminates. In a flowing stream-of-consciousness language, as taut as a high tension line, Partout le feu displays the violence of a declining world and the powerful desire to bring about an impossible reconciliation. Standing alone onstage is Stéphanie Aflalo, a peerless speaker and performer, navigating fiercely between anger, vulnerability and a biting irony. A searing immersion into the torments and hopes of a young generation, which when facing catastrophe, chooses to embrace the flames, to spark a new life.

Accessibility infos :

Text spoken in French with French adapted surtitles
Use of strobe lights

Biography(s)

HUBERT COLAS
Hubert Colas is an author, director and set designer. He founded Diphtong Cie in 1988. He has staged most of his own texts, including Temporairement épuisé, Nomades, La Brûlure, La Croix des oiseaux, Sans faim, Le Livre d’or de Jan, Texte M…
Echoing his work as an author, Hubert Colas also explores the writings of contemporaries such as Witold Gombrowicz, Christine Angot, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Sonia Chiambretto, Rainald Goetz and Annie Zadek. Through his constantly renewed approach to texts, he celebrates theatrical writing in all its diversity.
In January 2025, he created Hélène Laurain’s Partout le feu at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, followed by Harold Pinter’s Célébration at the Nouveau Théâtre Besançon.

HÉLÈNE LAURAIN
Hélène Laurain was born in Metz in 1988. She studied political science and Arabic in France and Germany, and then creative writing at Paris 8 University. She lives in the east of France with her family and works as a German translator. She currently leads a reading group at the Fonds régional d’art contemporain Lorraine on the theme of emancipation. She is particularly interested in the living, feminism and motherhood, maternity, and strives to find forms that speak to the the contemporary.

STÉPHANIE AFLALO
Stéphanie Aflalo is an actress, author, director and musician. She pursued theatre and philosophical studies. She has performed under the direction of Marion Chobert, Maya Peillon, Milena Csergo, Hugo Mallon, Bruno Baradat, Grégoire Schaller, Yuval Rozman, Florian Pautasso and Hubert Colas.
In 2022, she created the johnny stecchino company. In 2023, she presented a solo in concert form, LIVE, at the POP in Paris. In 2024, she created Méditation at the Festival d’Avignon.
Her project “Récréations philosophiques” interweaves theater and philosophy, theory and practice, in an intimate and playful way. It is today composed of two parts ; the third one, Tout doit disparaître, will be created in 2026.

Credits

Stage direction and scenography: Hubert Colas
Text: Hélène Laurain
With: Stéphanie Aflalo
Video: Pierre Nouvel
Lights: Nils Doucet, Hubert Colas
Assistant director: Hao Yang
Sound engineer: Sammy Bichon
Video production: Morvan Hauray
Production: Diphtong Cie
Supported by: CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Friche la Belle de Mai – Marseille, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris
Acknowledgements: Théâtre de la Tempête, Geneviève et Matthieu
Partout le feu is Hélène Laurain’s first novel, published by Verdier in 2022.