If books take the stage first, it’s because reading is more than just words on a page. It’s about sparking the imagination, teaching us how to dream, how to think, and ultimately, how to express ourselves. Each page we turn opens up a new world. Driven by this belief, actress and director Anne-Sophie Robin, in collaboration with author Philippe Dorin and musician Eric Recordier, created Page 92 as a celebration of reading. Originally created with forty-three 10- to 11-year-olds from Petit Nanterre’s Lafontaine and Pâquerettes schools, this multi-voice performance has now been adapted for fifteen students but remains just as poetic.

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The books are followed by words — the ones we write or invent to tell the story of our town, our dreams, our struggles and protests.

Conceived by filmmaker and youth centre coordinator Nicolas Sene, Nemetodorum brings together fourteen teenagers and young adults from “Les Pablo”, home to the Tours Nuages (“cloud towers”) in Nanterre, for a stage performance. After auditions, writer Noham Selcer asked the selected actors to “imagine you’re a bird.” Their subsequent responses and accounts — at once humorous, poignant and sincere — became the raw material of the text he wrote for them. The entire production, directed by Jade Herbulot and Julie Bertin of the Birgit Ensemble, unfolds against the backdrop of a vibrant yet dreamlike Nanterre captured in all its facets by Nicolas Sene’s photos and videos.

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