I had never seen the sea

Shows-Je n'avais jamais vu la mer
"Dad when I am big, I'm going to go to war with whom? "" I hope you will never make war, It's a real dirt! "I was 6 years old and I thought that a boy, When he was tall, had to wage war to be a man. 1957. Loulou is 20 years old. He is called, like two million others, to do its military service in France. He will go directly to Algeria, During "events", Make a war that does not say his name. He will stay there 27 months.

60 years after the Evian agreements, his son, The actor and author Pierre-Philippe Devaux, decide to tell, alone on stage, the story of his father. He will carry out an in -depth investigation work on this key period in the history of our French neighbors and will carry out his father's interviews. These "testimonies" constitute the raw material of this project:

"I told her story as my father told me: with his humor, His Lyon expressions, As if to make this war even closer to us which seemed unreal to me, even going so far as to insert the first letter he wrote to his mother, Once arrived in Algeria.

If history takes place during this colonial war, It is nonetheless universal because it is above all a human history with its questions, its states of souls and complexity. »»
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  • Category

    Shows
  • Start date

    Wednesday 08 Feb 2023 à 20:00
  • End date

    Wednesday 08 Feb 2023 à 21:00
  • Address

    Théâtricul, Rue de Genève 64, 1225 Chêne-Bourg, Suisse

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