Tadeusz Kantor

On 11 November at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Festival d'Automne is dedicating a concert to Joséphine Markovits. In her memory, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Ensemble L'Instant Donné will perform works by Claude Vivier, Olga Neuwirth, Gérard Pesson, Pierre-Yves Macé and Arnold Schoenberg. All proceeds from the ticket sales are donated to the Association for ALS Research.

For this new performance, titled Inconditionnelles singer, author, and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza stages her French translation of Kae Tempest’s fervent play, Hopelessly Devoted (2015). Inconditionnelles explores the interstices where love and connection abound. 

Six voices ring out, bringing with them the captivating stories of six men and women, aged between 30 and 60 years old, and who are currently serving prison sentences. Usually confined to within prison walls, their words find a stage on which to be heard at the Bouffes du Nord theatre.

Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, Dorcy Rugamba, actor, author and director, brings to life an extract from this work Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents, published by JC Lattès.