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Boat People
Show · Wednesday, November 18 · 20:00 · Marseille 3e Arrondissement
Friche Belle de Mai, 41 Rue Jobin
1979, near Niort, a French family hosts a Vietnamese family who fled authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia. Between the hosts' motives and the silenced pains of the newcomers, we rediscover the great solidarity movement that organized itself in France at that time. A movement as imperious as it is complex. Marine Bachelot Nguyen makes theatre a territory of memory and resistance. On the edge of documentary and fiction, her work questions postcolonial inheritances. To nourish her narrative, she collected the voices of former…
