Hors la loi
Outlaws
Writed and directed by
Pauline Bureau
Vx-Colombier
Vx-Colombier
Hors la loi
24 May 2019 07 Jul 2019
Pauline Bureau likes to cross theatre and societal issues. For her first production at the Comédie-Française, she has written a play based on the “Bobigny trial”, whose repercussions contributed to the adoption of the Veil law in 1975.
“Forgive me, gentlemen, but I’ve decided to speak plainly this evening. Look at yourselves and look at us. Four women appear before four men... And to talk about what? Probes, uteruses, bellies, pregnancies and abortions! Would you not agree that this is already where the fundamental and intolerable injustice lies? These four women appearing before four men.” This extract from Gisèle Halimi’s plea in defence of Marie-Claire, 16, who had an illegal abortion, dates from 1972. On the accused bench next to the teenage girl sit her mother, her RATP colleagues and the “angel maker”. With their agreement, the lawyer transforms the defence into a public forum to denounce the injustice of the 1920 law prohibiting abortion.
Pauline Bureau likes to cross theatre and societal issues. As in her previous show Mon Cœur, based on the Mediator scandal, in which she described the whistle-blower Irene Frachon as “the kind of heroine for today I need to see on stage”, her characters, outlaws in a changing society, are driven by a salutary resolve. For her first production at the Comédie-Française, she has written a play based on the “Bobigny trial”, whose repercussions on public opinion contributed to the adoption of the Veil law on the voluntary termination of pregnancy in 1975. The action of the play revolves around these accused women who have agreed to make their lives a symbol, around Gisèle Halimi’s commitment, and the determination of the many personalities who came to “testify”: the Nobel Prize winner for medicine Jacques Monod, the politician Michel Rocard or, in the tradition of the Manifesto of the 343, the actress Delphine Seyrig.
WORLD CREATION
Creative team
Text and Staging****: Pauline Bureau
Scenography: Emmanuelle Roy
Costumes: Alice Touvet
Lights: Bruno Brinas
Video: Nathalie Cabrol
Original music and sound: Vincent Hulot
Makeup and Hairstyles: Catherine Saint-Sever
Dramaturgy: Benoite Office
Assistant stage manager: Sabrina Baldassarra
Distribution
the company
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Martine
ChevallierMarie-Claire Chevalier à 60 ans ; Christiane, une militante féministe et Madame Bambuck
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Coraly
ZahoneroMichèle Chevalier, la mère de Marie-Claire ; Valérie, une militante féministe et Delphine Seyrig
See biography -
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Laurent
NatrellaFranck, inspecteur de police; le Président du Tribunal et le Professeur Monod
See biography -
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Claire
de La Rüe du CanMarie-Claire Chevalier à 16 ans et Chantal, une militante féministe
See biography
Sarah Brannens: Martine, la soeur de Marie-Claire ; Suzanne, l’assistante de Maître Halimi et Claire Saint-Jacques
Bertrand de Roffignac: Daniel; le Journaliste et le Procureur
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Fri 24 May 2019
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