Sonia Chiambretto
Oasis Love
© Oasis Love, Sonia Chiambretto © Christophe Raynaud de Lage ©
© Oasis Love, Sonia Chiambretto © Christophe Raynaud de Lage ©
© Oasis Love, Sonia Chiambretto © Christophe Raynaud de Lage ©
Concept, text and direction, Sonia Chiambretto
With the artistic collaboration of Yoann Thommerel
With Théo Askolovitch, Sonia Chiambretto, Lawrence Davis, Déborah Dozoul, Emile-Samory Fofana, Felipe Fonseca Nobre, Julien Masson
Assistant director, Pierre Itzkovitch
Scenography, Léonard Bougault
Light design and stage management, Neills Doucet
Graphic and typographic design, Julien Priez
Sound creation, Thibaut Langenais
Costume design, Étienne Diop
Sound and video manager, Antoine Frech
Stage Manager, Charlotte Arnaud
Administration and production Fanélie Honegger
Produced by Le Premier épisode | Sonia Chiambretto & Yoann Thommerel
Coproduced by Théâtre Ouvert — Centre National des Dramaturgies Contemporaines; Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers – CDN; Comédie de Caen – CDN de Normandie; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Théâtre de Saint Nazaire – Scène Nationale; Théâtre National de Strasbourg; Les Nouvelles Vagues, Fondation Agnès B
Soutiens de la Drac Normandie; région Normandie; département du Calvados; ville de Caen; Adami; Fonpeps
With the artistic participation of the Jeune théâtre national
Sonia Chiambretto is an associate author at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers - CDN and the Scène Nationale de Saint Nazaire
The company Le Premier épisode is associated with the Comédie de Caen Centre Dramatique National
Sonia Chiambretto is represented by L'Arche - agence théâtrale
Théâtre Ouvert, the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers - CDN and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of this performance and present it in co-production
"As if using the spoken word was like starting a riot ". For the author and director Sonia Chiambretto, the poetic driving force behind her piece Oasis Love is to be found in the meaning of the French word émeute, meaning "riot", but whose literal meaning is "to create emotion”.
Why does the appearance of the forces of law and order in housing estates on the peripheries of major cities prompt, almost always, in a reflex movement to flee, the running away of the youngsters that live there, and within the same movement, the ensuing chase by police officers? In Oasis Love, Sonia Chiambretto uses this question as the starting point for a piece, characterized by a resolutely hybrid form, born from an extensive process of documentation, enquiry and writing on the subject of the ambiguity of our relationship with authority. Oasis Love explores the poetic might of the chase, its exaltation, and exhausted bodies. That of a youth which runs and finds new life and freshness in this thing which makes the world go round: love. Before our eyes a space is constructed in which the rules of living together are brashly reinvented, throwing light on something akin to the sense-led atlas of a collective whole which, little by little, becomes a futuristic oasis.