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Darge, Fabienne

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Le Monde - France | 29/10/2007

Strange mannequins living in shop windows

Fabienne Darge is thrilled by an exhibition on the streets of Charleville-Mézières [Northern France]. "It's a crazy, fascinating project up to Royal de Luxe standards. This famous street theatre group's new creation doesn't fail to amaze. First of all because Royal de Luxe has changed scale, giving up the spectacularly monumental size of its more recent creations ... . Actually The Mannequin's Revolt is not a spectacle. It is more a sort of installation-exhibition, a poetical trail. ... From the beginning of the main high street to the arcades of the Duke's square, the tableaus first melt into real shop windows before we notice their outlandishness. A dandy holding a glass of beer watches his legs liquefy ... . A homeless person tries to throw some dinner together before drawing some unlikely designs in the style of Leonardo Da Vinci, or indeed Royal de Luxe."

Le Monde - France | 09/10/2007

'La Francophonie' under fire from dramatists

"Is Francophone theatre a ghetto or a creative space where aid has enabled artists to develop their work in favourable conditions? The question once again raised its head as the 24th Francophonies festival [which celebrates French-language artists who are not French nationals] in the Limousin region in western France came to a close. Since it was created in 1984 the festival has been a forum for all kinds of debate", stresses Fabienne Darge who quotes the playwrights Wajdi Mouawad (Lebanese-born and living in Québec) and Koffi Kwahulé (an Ivoirian based in Paris). "Being locked in the ghetto of Francophone authors is no longer bearable, they assert. For years, when we took our work to theatre producers they steered us towards the TILF [the former name for a Francophone theatre in the Villette area of Paris] or Limoges [the city where the Francophonies festival is held] ... There were playwrights who wrote in French and those who wrote in Francophone and were supposed to stay where they belonged."

Le Monde - France | 03/01/2006

A 'People's Theatre' to calm social tensions

The stage director Didier Bezace, president of the Théâtre de la Commune in Aubervilliers, just north of Paris, explains how a 'people's theatre' (according to the ideals of Jean Vilar, founder of the Avignon festival) can put an end to violence: "If it is in our suburbs that we find socially troubled areas, where life is hard, then that is where we need above all to maintain the tools of freedom and resistance that the theatre represents. (...) I think the suburbs are currently the place where people's theatre and the goals of decentralisation make the most sense. (...) I am not claiming that young people who burn cars go the the theatre. What I do claim, however, having spoken to some of these young people, is that when they start going to the theatre, they stop burning and destroying."

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