Archive NEXT 2023

J'ai une épée

Léa Drouet (Belgium / France)

Minimum age 14+
60 minutes
French spoken
Dutch & English surtitled
How do we look at children ? Which principles are behind our education and how do education and punishment relate to each other in a society that wants to produce dutiful citizens ? Theatre maker Léa Drouet examines how certain ideas can suffocate children and youngsters, or on the other hand actually let them breathe freely.
In J'ai une epée Drouet looks how children are approached and viewed by institutions that are supposed to protect and educate them. Which frames do they handle, and are these attuned to the worlds that children imagine ?
In a set of glistening cloths you recognize various places : a landscape, a hut, a school, a town. At the tempo of children the spectator hops from story to story. You reflect on the treatment of children by media, police and justice. You hear anecdotes about monsters and brave heroes, as Drouet and her daughter tell each other. All for kids ! 
In corealisation with la Maison de la Culture d'Amiens

In Amiens: English surtitles only
Mise en scène, texte, interprétation Léa Drouet
Dramaturgie Camille Louis

Scénographie Élodie Dauguet
Musique Èlg
Lumières Nicolas Olivier
Costumes Eugénie Poste
Régie générale François Bodeux
Assistanat à la mise en scène Marion Menan
Développement de production, diffusion France Morin, Anna Six AMA Brussels
Un spectacle de Léa Drouet / Vaisseau asbl Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Production Theatre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vaisseau asbl
Coproduction Centre Culturel André Malraux, Scène Nationale de Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, Printemps des Comédiens – Montpellier, NEXT Arts Festival Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre de Liège, Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne Mars-Mons – Arts de la scène Le Phénix — Scène Nationale de Valenciennes, La Coop asbl Shelter Prod.
Avec l’aide de La Fédération Wallonie- Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Direction du Théâtre
Avec le soutien de Kunstencentrum Buda, La Bellone, House of Performing Arts, Taxshelter. be, ING et du Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge — vaisseau-leadrouet.com

Photo © Noémie della Faille