La Maison Théâtre is currently offering a bold, engaging and above all touching project: a work around Banksy, evoking Banksy, without really focusing on Banksy.
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For amateurs and initiates, or not at all. It doesn’t matter, after all.
Make the walls scream, “it’s not a piece on Banksy”, confirms from the outset the author of this original and rhythmic text, spoken and sung, presented until April 3. “It’s a play about a young girl, in search of herself. »
A sort of quest for identity, if you will, offered here by the Théâtre Le Clou, which is doing it again, after the success of I am Williamwith exactly the same creative team (Rébecca Déraspe for the text, Sylvain Scott for the staging, Benoit Landry and Chloé Lacasse for the music, Linda Brunelle for the costumes, etc.).
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Make the walls scream “is a play about a young girl in search of herself,” says its author, Rébecca Déraspe.
The young girl, a certain Jade, therefore, born of an unknown father, one day realizes that her father must certainly be this anonymous artist from Bristol, in the United Kingdom, who lines the walls of the largest cities. world, from London to Bethlehem via New York. Half-fragile, half-fiery, she decides to go looking for him, in a crazy, funny and touching epic. Everything is punctuated with committed winks and a tasty touch of madness. Yes, here the works of Banksy, which cannot be reproduced, for obvious copyright issues, will instead come to life. Here a rat, further on the girl with the ball, why not?
It must be said that the choice of Banksy’s work to address young people is not fortuitous.
There is something in his artistic gesture, in the act of resistance that he poses by creating these works, which in my opinion comes from the adolescent drive.
Rébecca Déraspe, playwright
His snub to norms and conventions, his desire to change the world in his own way, anonymously as a bonus, should indeed speak to adolescents. And not only. “Like teenagers, I feel close to that,” continues the author, laughing. When I do theatre, that’s kind of what I try to do! »
This is not the first time that the author, with an enviable career (Gamete, Antigone, etc.), targets young audiences. “But for me, there’s really no difference,” she says. To be sincere, I approach the writing without any difference. With the same rigor. »
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In the room, the works of Banksy, which cannot be reproduced, come to life. Here, the rat.
It must be said that she has not lost her child’s heart. You can hear it in his tone, and in his pen. His spontaneity, above all. This “drive” mentioned above is not far off. “I still feel very close to my adolescence,” she confirms with a laugh. I don’t feel like I have to watch this generation from the depths of my middle age. On the contrary ! I still identify a lot with this adolescent drive! »
With this text, beyond the initiation to the power of art, to the power of the artistic gesture, and finally to rebellion, Rébecca Déraspe hopes that young audiences will appreciate her story here. “Ultimately? I hope that young people will be told a good story. And if they then have the curiosity to discover Banksy, so much the better! »
Make the walls screama creation of the Théâtre Le Clou, directed by Sylvain Scott, with Geneviève Alarie, Gabriel Favreau and Inès Talbi, is presented at the Maison Théâtre until April 3.
Also at the Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui
A second text by Rébecca Déraspe will be shown soon, at the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui this time. After an aborted launch due to the pandemic, Those who have evaporateddirected by Sylvain Bélanger (with Geneviève Boivin-Roussy, Josée Deschênes and Vincent Graton), will finally be presented from April 14 to May 7. “It’s the most important piece of my career, the most personal, the most visceral, the one that comes the most from me”, rejoices its author. After seven meager performances in March 2020, she is “really grateful that the show can exist,” she continues. “It’s a date that I’ve been waiting for a long time! »