New Plays from the Carribbean: Francophone Edition

"Adoration by Jean-René Lemoine: In a nightclub on a terrace overlooking the sea, a woman Chine, and a man, Rodez, reflect on their relationship. Chine tells the story of her first encounter with Rodez. Memories of desire, obsession, love, and hate mix with the sounds of the waves they hear from far away. Slowly, Chine unveils the inner workings of a dangerous passion in which she lost herself. - And the Whole World Quakes: the Great Collapse by Guy Régis Junior: Two women, survivors of a catastrophe, stand on a hill overlooking a destroyed city. The Youngest and the Oldest look upon the desolated landscape and hear the lamentations, prayers, and songs of the survivors. - Family by Gaël Octavia: A father hides his homosexuality from his family and tries to escape a stifling and suffocating family. The alcoholic stay-at-home mother, who is always is jealous of the relationships her husband has with their children. A brother and a sister sleep in the same room, in the same bed. In this ordinary dysfunctional family, everyone struggles playing the social games they are expected to play. The lies, secrets, and silences ultimately blow up the constraining social conventions they lived with before. - Ladjablès Wild Woman by Daniely Francisque: During a night of the Carnival in Martinique a female masked dancer meets an arrogant man who tries to seduce her. Drunken by desire, the heartless man does not realize that the predator is slowly becoming the prey of the bewitching dancer. - Street Sad by Luc Saint Eloy: Marlène is a prostitute working on the streets of Paris. She does not care about anything or anyone. One evening, she returns to the place where her brother Jeannot was murdered just a year before. There she meets a mysterious man with whom she starts a conversation. She tells him her story, her memories and enters into a dangerous flirt. - The Day My Father Killed Me by Charlotte Boimare & Magali Solignat: This play is based on a true story of a singer who murdered his own son a few years ago in Guadeloupe. Devised as a documentary theatre work, the play exposes multiple voices that offer a diverse narrative account of the crime. It takes a close look at the violence in contemporary Caribbean society"--