C'était Notre Terre

Ages 16 and up. Duration: 2h30 An incandescent, radical, and poetic theatrical text about colonisation and how it shaped the world we live in today. A family saga

Ages 16 and up. Duration: 2h30

An incandescent, radical, and poetic theatrical text about colonisation and how it shaped the world we live in today. A family saga, at once historical, political, and human, set before, during, and after the Algerian War of Independence. Six voices intertwine and interlock: those of the father, mother, brother, and sisters — very wealthy colonists, owners for several generations of an immense estate — and that of the Kabyle nanny. Critical reviews: « It was a novel fraught with danger, this saga of a family of French colonists in Algeria. Mathieu Belezi ran the risk of going to extremes in the sense of the title and succumbing to a nostalgia for the good old colonial times. Or, on the contrary, of ignoring the wounds that the war of independence, however just, had inflicted on those who were born under that sun. This book avoids all these pitfalls.  » Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde des livres

Director: Mathieu Belezi

Cast: Charlotte Clamens, Mina Kavani, Malika Khatir, Mounir Margoum and Judith Morisseau

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