Jun 21Jun 23, 2024
STADIUM
Mohamed El Khatib • Documentary performance
A HUMAN AND HUMOROUS APPROACH FOR A MIGHTY TRIBUTE TO FOOTBALL AND TO EVERYONE DEVOTED TO AND LIVING FOR FOOTBALL.
Surely no other sport can reach such peaks of excitement as football. For anyone who has ever gone to a match, even if only once, it is patently obvious that the interest is in the stands as much as it is on the pitch. Who are these fans, these football fanatics? There could be any number of answers to that question, so Mohamed El Khatib is presenting a lively panorama of them in a performance which is not simply a reenactment of the electric atmosphere at a match. He has invited supporters of the French team Racing Club de Lens to speak up and speak out, showing how a football stadium can also showcase feelings and movements of concern to society at large.
Hugues Le Tanneur
Zirlib
Original idea, direction
Mohamed El Khatib
Text Mohamed El Khatib Scenography, lighting design & video Fred Hocké Sound design Arnaud Léger Artistic collaboration Éric Domeneghetty, Violaine de Maupeou
With 53 supporters of the Racing Club de Lens
PRODUCTION Zirlib. WITH SUPPORT FROM Fondation d’entreprise Hermès under the program New Setting and the Fonds SACD Théâtre. COPRODUCTION Théâtre Olympia, centre dramatique national de Tours – Tandem Douai-Arras, scène nationale – Festival d’Automne à Paris – Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – La Colline, Théâtre national, Châteauvallon, scène nationale – Le Grand T, Théâtre de Loire Atlantique – Théâtre national de Bretagne – Théâtre du Beauvaisis – Scènes du Golfe, Vannes – Musée du Louvre-Lens. RESIDENCIES Le Quai, CDN Angers Pays de la Loire – Ville de Grenay. Zirlib through a subsidy agreement with the Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Centre-Val-de-Loire, for the region Centre-Val-de-Loire and supported by Ville d’Orléans. Mohamed El Khatib associate artist with Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, and Théâtre national de Bretagne.
Fri 21 Jun 2024
9:00 PM
Sat 22 Jun 2024
9:00 PM
Sun 23 Jun 2024
9:00 PM