“As if speaking out was like starting a riot”.
For playwright and director Sonia Chiambretto, the poetic driving force behind her play Oasis Love lies in the meaning of the word “émeute”, which translates as “riot” but originally derives from the verb “to create emotion”.
When the police appear on housing estates on the outskirts of major cities, why does it always, or almost always, in a flight reaction, cause the young people who live there to run and in the same movement, police officers also to run? Oasis Love explores the poetic power of the chase, exhilaration, and exhausted bodies. It is also the story of youth that runs and draws its breath and freshness from the stuff that makes the world go round: love. Before our very eyes, a space is constructed in which the rules of living together are brazenly reinvented, revealing a sensory atlas of a large housing estate that is gradually being transformed into a futuristic oasis.
With the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, guest author Sonia Chiambretto pursues her artistic work by immersing herself in the town of Nanterre. For the past two seasons, she has led research and writing laboratories around the creation of a composite picture of the ideal police officer.
Director Sonia Chiambretto is the co-founder of Le Premier épisode theatre company with Yoann Thommerel. They produced two shows together in 2021, Îlots and Paradis, and co-wrote and co-directed Mineur non accompagné in 2022. During a residency at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in 2016, she and Yoann Thommerel founded the Groupe d’information sur les ghettos (g.i.g), which creates poetic and explicitly political fictional spaces that question the mechanisms of exclusion and withdrawal through published works, installations, videos, performances, and more.
Author of a dozen books published by L’Arche éditeur, Actes-Sud Papiers and Editions Nous, she is also active in the field of performance art. Her voice is notable for the formal originality of her writing and the strength and conviction of her expression. She says she writes in “foreign French languages”. Her language is raw and musical, and she creates points of view by mixing creative texts, personal accounts, and archive documents. Her work has been staged in France and abroad by Hubert Colas and Rachid Ouramdane. She has also collaborated with Vincent Thomasset, Pascal Kirsch, Dieudonné Niangouna, Kitsou Dubois, and Anne Théron.
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