In October 2022, as part of the Théâtre Nanterre-Amender’s “Croquis de Voyage” (Travel Sketches) programme, drama student Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf spent three weeks in Calais helping exiles alongside volunteers from the humanitarian organisation Utopia 56. Their tragedy reawakened in him the silent memory of his deported family.
The “ressac” (undertow) is a perpetual movement, a constant ebb and flow of exiles who arrive in Calais, attempt to cross to England, are pushed back and then try again. Like the rise and fall of a history that threatens to repeat itself, it is a wave that drags the brutalities of the past back into the present.
On the beach, Camille, a young volunteer — the author’s fictional alter ego — experiences powerlessness and everyday violence. Trapped in what feels like an open-air prison, he can only watch helplessly as Amna, an exile desperate to cross the sea, confronts an uncompromising police officer — the very embodiment of a cold, inflexible state. An oppressive silence hangs between them, a silence born of being rendered invisible, of voices never truly heard or heeded.
Camille foresees the trauma that awaits future generations of children within this stifling atmosphere, a realisation spurred by the marks of a haunting family legacy he discerns in the relentless harassment and accusations against those who offer refuge.
Texte
Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf
Co-mise en scène
Pierre-Thomas Jourdan
et Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf
Avec
Axel Godard
Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf
(distribution en cours)
Création sonore
Guillaume Bachelé
Création lumière
Rose Bienvenu
Texte
Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf
Co-mise en scène
Pierre-Thomas Jourdan
et Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf
Avec
Axel Godard
Gabriel Gozlan-Hagendorf
(distribution en cours)
Création sonore
Guillaume Bachelé
Création lumière
Rose Bienvenu
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