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Les Papavéracées
Both a creation cycle and a triptych, THE VOICE OF THE ABSENTEES is the work Les Papavéracées made from 2017 to 2023, when they were associate artists with La Maison du Théâtre in Amiens. It is a human and artistic experience that transformed our theatrical landscape : there is room for other stories, other bodies, other ways of doing things.
“A theater in which necessity, joy, boldness, realism, beauty, poetry and commitment can live together and sublimate one another.”
Each one of our plays can lead to a SHARED CREATION (Words of….). Every project is unique and we would be more than thrilled to build it with the people and the locations that would welcome us ! Contact us !
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Participative project with children.
In 2021-2022, we were creating our play “CHILDHOOD(S)”. In the meanwhile, we worked with 2 groups of children on the SHARED CREATION “Words of Childhoods”. The project took place thanks to 2 partnerships (the Léo Lagrange Social and Cultural Center in Roye and the city of Saint-Quentin). We took the time (3 weeks between October and April) and we offered the kids to create their own play, from what they wanted and needed to say, at this time of their lives. It was a brand-new situation for those children : adults don’t often ask them what they think about life and the state of the world. The 2 groups met each other when they performed their plays in front of an audience.
Participative project in theater and social sciences.
The project has taken place in 2017-2018 in a partnership with several entities in Amiens (Maison du Théâtre -city theater, Léo Lagrange Cultural Center, le Chaudron - theater of the students, Social and Cultural center of Etouvie, Guy Mareschal Highschool). We have worked with 3 groups and with the intervention of the political popular education cooperative “L’Etincelle” for the social sciences. 3 artistic and intellectual “objects” were born. It was the opportunity for young people to speak out and make their voices loud in the public area. A social and artistic emergency.
“Theater gave me a weapon I didn’t possess : words.”
Emie in Words of Youth.
We are convinced that direct access to art begins with an emancipatory practice, so, we have imagined our creations as SHARED CREATIONS. It means that our plays can reawaken desires of action for some people in the audience. If that happens, we must be ready to welcome them and offer them an environment to achieve what they have to do. So, we offer time (a long one, because it’s the only way of creating links) and space to experiment other ways of doing things together.
Ever since the company exists, we are committed to spread the taste for theater (and more generally, for art and knowledge) to everybody. Listening to the needs of the audience and aware of the realities of the entities we work with, we are used to building custom-made projects. If you have an idea or a desire, we are here to accompany you along the way. From articulating the project to making it happen !
We are convinced that direct access to art begins with an emancipatory practice, so, we have imagined our creations as SHARED CREATIONS. It means that our plays can reawaken desires of action for some people in the audience. If that happens, we must be ready to welcome them and offer them an environment to achieve what they have to do. So, we offer time (a long one, because it’s the only way of creating links) and space to experiment other ways of doing things together.
“Direct access to art and knowledge for everybody, everywhere”
Working for a real artistic and intellectual democracy : facing this great question, we don’t have ready-made answers. But we have (several) experiences and the will to invent with people places and moments of meetings and sharing. With who they are and with who we are.
Everybody has a culture. But everybody doesn’t have access to art and knowledge. So, we must build space-times to make that happen. And then, we can see that everybody is able to think and to make art. Art and thought can grow anywhere. As long as we give it the time, the care and the love it needs. Going against today’s trend, we keep making these islets live.