Si tu continues comme ça
Rémi Faure - Elbekkari

If I keep trying to fit into boxes, to correspond, to want to be part of the "group"... I’ll die… So rather than die, I thought writing a one-person show would be a less dramatic option.

Oscillating between different cultures, different social classes, different sexualities, I am a living contradiction, a sort of Desigual sweater… a little too overloaded.

Unfortunately, in a world that’s falling apart, there’s little space for uncertainty, the in-between, or nuance. Defining one’s identity and taking a stand has become a major issue. A matter of life, death, and struggle.

Between neo-fascist danger and the hypocrisy of the “left-wing bourgeoisie,” can we escape the roles we’re assigned? Can we free ourselves from the gaze of others? Do we really have the ability to change?

This show, mixing stand-up, theater, and poetry, explores the multiplicity and fluidity of identity. A bizarre, funny, and tragic experimental comedy.

After two and a half years of roaming through comedy clubs to test excerpts from my texts, three years of writing theatrical monologues supported by queer, feminist, and anti-racist readings, I now want to bring these texts together and turn them into a show. I need two weeks to test, experiment, and evolve the writing through the stage. It’s about re-improvising the texts on stage, making them sweat, intertwining them, and stripping them of all literary elements to find the speech, the tone, the spontaneity. It’s also about finding the physicality within the space, finding the “body” of the text. Finally, it’s about taking advantage of the opportunity outside my city of residence to test the work in front of diverse audiences (students, artists, subscribers) and also engage with the audiences of local comedy clubs, helping them step into the theater.

Writing and Performance Rémi Faure

Dramaturgical Perspective Anna Solomin

Directorial Assistance Etienne Blanc (ongoing)

Thanks to Delphine De Baere, Lorenzo Mancini, Laura Ughetto, Fanny Cuvelier, Josepha Sini

Co-production La Balsamine (Brussels, Be), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels, Be)

Residency Support Maison Poème (Brussels, Be), Fabrique de Théâtre (Frameries, Be), Bamp (Brussels, Be), Tournai Cultural Center (Be), Théâtre de Namur (Be), Corridor (Liège, Be), Liège Festival / Manège Fonck (Liège, Be)

After mediocre studies and professional training as a sound technician, I joined E.S.A.C.T. by chance after taking the entrance exam as a stand-in for a friend who was an actress. Graduating in 2017 with a Master's (my parents didn’t believe it), I performed in J’abandonne une partie de moi, which I adapted from Justine Lequette, Laboratoire Poison by Adeline Rosenstein, and Lucifer by Antonio Carmona and Melissa Zehner. I’ve been practicing stand-up for three years under my mother’s name (Rémi El Bekkari), and I am also a singer-songwriter in a solo music project (https://soundcloud.com/super-violet).

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