Original announcement in French.
THE ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY TEACHERS
Saturday, April 25, 2015
By Camille Brilloit for the Theatre of the Ordinary.
The Theatre of the Ordinary has partnered with the Asian People’s Theater Festival Society in Hong Kong to showcase the history of the 130,000 Chinese workers who arrived in France during The First World War to help behind the front lines.
You probably know this story, traces of which still exist everywhere in France, in particular in the graves of those migrant labourers. After a journey of several months, these workers landed in a France at war, where they were met with degrading living and working conditions in the camps, racist residents, the cold of the countries of the north where they spend most of their time.
This is the starting point from which we have created this spectacle, using the technique of masked theatre and movement, and will be presented in French and Chinese, with the show going on tour, first in France from 8th May to the 12th June, 2015, followed by China from 19th June 19 to 1st August 1, 2015.
A flyer and project outline can be found attached.
The tour will take us to the Ménilmontant Theatre in Paris from the 12th to the 14th June
This introduction of the event is offered to history and geography teachers in the hope that it may be of interest.
We are very open to discussing how we might create from this a dialogue between Chinese and French artists to interpret the show and its audience (teachers, students …).
Contact:
Theatre of the Ordinary
83 rue Manuel, 59000 Lille
theatredelordinaire@hotmail.fr
www.theatredelordinaire.fr
Supported by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Department of Pas-de-Calais Region.
On the way to the front – Franco-Chinese mask theater project. Created and staged from 2014 to 2015.
Writing services from APHG Ile-de-France and Camille shone – 25/04/2015. All rights reserved.