Stolen Papers
Clyde Chabot wrote Papiers volés after her wallet was stolen in the spring of 2021 in Marseille, where she had just moved.
Starting from the anecdotal, the text questions the author’s attempt to put down roots in the south of France, where her grandparents arrived from Tunisia in the 1950s and where she grew up as a child. And of living between two cities, Paris and Marseilles, today, with the health crisis as a subtext. The play also paints a passionate portrait of the city through the prism of theft, the lost property department and certain flowery neighbourhoods. Based on a news item, it is a questioning of identity going back to the earliest childhood that resurfaces, as the dramatic and choreographic writing unfolds. The writing appears as a jolt, a possible solution, to lead the investigation back to the thief and reclaim one’s own identity.
“On the stage, Clyde Chabot, choreographer and dancer Fabio Dolce, and director and dancer Carole Errante re-enact this initial robbery, diffracting and multiplying their artistic singularities to unfold the various layers of our composite identities, From Sicily to Tunisia, from Paris to Marseilles, from uptown to the housing estates, she continues to write about what continues to move within us, across generations and continents, about our capacity to be plural. e.s, beyond the injunctions of identity”.
Laurence de la Fuente, playwright
Following a Permutation in July 2021 at Pôle Nord / Agence de Voyages imaginaires in Marseille, this creation was hosted in residency by Lieux Publics, Centre national et Pôle européen de création pour l’espace public in Marseille and at La Distillerie, Lieu de Fabrique in Aubagne, before opening to professionals on 1 June, followed by a performance at Théâtre Jean Vilar in L’Ile-Saint-Denis as part of the Scènes du 6 festival. It will continue in autumn 2022 at La Distillerie and Théâtre de la Cité in Marseille. After an initial stage production in spring 2022, the challenges are to develop the choreographic, sound and video work.
