© Jef Byttebier
‘Imagine having your pointed nose
being reconstructed into a flat boxer’s
nose, replacing your skin with a darker
shade, entering a stage and saying: ‘Moi,
je suis un vrai Africain.’
A white loner would most prefer to become
an African. A European tourist ends up
in a hotel in Congo. A hospitable Congolese
tries her very best to lure Europeans
into her country.
Vive l’Afrique is a
show about the luxury with which he ‘white
man’ can travel to the south,
about the dream of the ‘black
man’ to reach Fort Europe, about
the sublimation of exoticism, about
the Congolese civil war and the loitering
of African riches.
Vive l’Afrique was selected
for the Theatre Festival of Flanders
and the Netherlands in 2002. After a
tour in Dutch, a French version was created
in collaboration with KVS/De Bottelarij
for the festival ‘Les Amis du Nord
et les Amis du Sud’, organized
by Théâtre La Galafronie.
Text / direction
/ scenography: Ivan
Vrambout
By: Joris Van den Brande, Sara Vertongen
Production: Action Malaise
Co-production: Limelight, Netwerk, Theater
aan Zee
Première: 14th March 2002 in Limelight
(Kortrijk)
Jury
report
Theaterfestival 2002
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