Othello
D’après William Shakespeare / Aurore Fattier
CREATION
“Once upon a time there was a beautiful and very valiant Moor in Venice. His prowess and his prudence in the art of war earned him high regard. It turns out that, moved by his courage, a young and noble Venetian named Desdemona fell in love with the Moor, and that, overcome by her beauty, he returned his love to her”. Thus begins the fable of Othello … before Iago spreads murder and infamy in the ear of the Moor. Aurore Fattier gets on with emancipating our reading of the stubborn stigmatisation of foreigners accumulated over generations. In order to inhabit Othello from the inside, she deconstructs the narrative thread, puts it within the focus of contemporary texts, stories of Black slaves and sets it in a Black novel aesthetic. The violent desire that is denatured in a desire for violence is carried by free jazz, video and love songs. Behind the tragedy of jealousy, there is the unbearable fragility of love in the face of the rampage of men.
Subtitle in Dutch on 29/09
With Koen De Sutter, Pauline Discry, Fabien Magry, Vincent Minne, William Nadylam, Nancy Nkusi, Annah Schaeffer, Jerome Varanfrain, Serge Wolf
Musical composition Manuel Roland
Directed by Aurore Fattier
Adaptation and dramaturgy Sébastien Monfè assisted by Daphne Liégeois
Collaboration on adaptation and translation William Nadylam
Assistant to the director Lara Ceulemans
Costumes Prunelle Rulens
Video Vincent Pinckaers
Light Matthieu Ferry
Scenography Sabine Theunissen in collaboration with Simon Detienne
Sound Jean-Maël Guyot
Realization of sets and costumes Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège
Solarium show asbl
Production Theater Liège, DC & J Creation with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Federal Government of Belgium and Inver Tax Shelter
Co-productions Theaters of the City of Luxembourg, Namur Theater, Mars – Mons Performing Arts, KVS, Bonlieu – National Scene of Annecy, Les Célestins – Lyon, TNT – National Theater of Toulouse
Aurore Fattier is welcomed in companionship at the Théâtre de Liège (2018-2022)