Médine

Presented by Furax Text Médine Music Proof Adaptation Redzol & Sheherazade Directed by Laetitia Botella with the participation of Karinale Lo van Zaouiche For over twenty years, Médine has been narrating the

Presented by Furax

Text Médine

Music Proof

Adaptation Redzol & Sheherazade

Directed by Laetitia Botella with the participation of Karinale Lo van Zaouiche

For over twenty years, Médine has been narrating the world through its fractures. With Enfants du destin, he returns to one of the most striking series of his work: these stories of children caught in the turmoil of History. Born with his first album in 2004, these songs tell of destinies shattered by the great movements of the world: colonisation, war, slavery, oppression. But behind the events, there is always a face, a name, an interrupted childhood. David, Souhan, Kunta Kinte, Nour or Yasser... Whether real or fictional, the Enfants du destin become the bearers of a collective memory. Through them, a historical fresco unfolds where the violence of yesterday seems to dialogue with that of today. In this new stage form, Médine revisits these narratives in an acoustic and intimate configuration. For 1h30, supported by Guillaume Zolnierowsky's piano and guitar, as well as Shéhérazade's voice and cello, he unfolds these stories like a modern storyteller. On stage, Karinale Lo van Zaouiche intervenes with touches, opening breaches in the narrative. In these dialogued interludes, words circulate, question, doubt. History ceases to be a simple account of the past to become a questioning of the present. Between concert and theatre, Enfants du destin invents a hybrid territory. A suspended place. A buffer zone where one comes to catch one's breath, heal memories and question the cyclical brutality of the world.