Synopsis

Available in: English – Français – Kreyòl

Play in two parts presented at Columbia University in 1970 as well as on other stages in New York City.

This show was conceived as a new vision for a popular theater drawing inspiration in the people, and denouncing the oppression of the system; a theater expression which aims to be complete, integrating dance, music and songs as well as aspects of Haitian folklore; and which seeks to spur a reflection on the contradictions inherent in Haitian society.

The first part consists of a montage of texts by Frantz Fanon, Kateb Yacine, Bertold Bretch, and Aimé Césaire, set against a stage decorated with African masks replicas.

The second part of the spectacle is staged around a dramatic poem by Georges Castera in creole: “Tambou Ti bout la Bout,” pulsing with drum music – a reaction of the people against oppression, as seen by an exile imagining an invasion of the country from abroad.