Authors of the Paris Women’s Festival Laura Queiras
Every year, the Paris Women’s Festival celebrates female talent by giving the floor to female authors for the duration of a short text to be performed on stage. For this twelfth edition supported by Dior, which will be held from January 11 to 13 at the Theater de la Pépinière, they have taken the pen to the theme of the night.
From Claire Chazal to Aurelie Saada via Eva Ionesco and Colombe Schneck, the auteur scene at this year’s Paris Women’s Festival promises to be full of surprises. For the 2024 edition, which will take place on the stage of the Théâtre de la Pépinière from January 11 to 13, these female voices have given free rein to their imaginations with texts on the theme of the night. A grand and poetic subject for writing fiction for some, autobiography for others.
From an equal challenge to the theater stage
Established in 2012, this festival was created to combat the underrepresentation of women in cultural life and especially in the dramatic space. Michel Fitussy (journalist, novelist and screenwriter), Véronique Olmi (novelist, playwright and actress) and Anne Rothenberg (art director, adapter and director) decide to combine their ideas, beliefs and talents in one project in Paris. Women’s Day. Since then, this event returns every year and brings together the voices of female personalities whose multiple horizons give the Festival all its richness.
Once written, their texts then come alive; for three days, the works of these women are presented as readings, staged at the Théâtre de la Pépinière.
THE: Women’s Paris of this year
For this year’s edition, supported by Dior, nine women have taken up their pens on the theme of the night and are preparing to present their texts in the theater. They mentioned them at a press conference on December 12, as did Claire Chazal, whose story will feature some autobiographical reminiscences because she “didn’t [sait] Don’t over-describe characters who don’t [lui] don’t look,” is a bit like Aurel Saada, who is also “no[écrit] only autobiographical things. For his part, Joffrey Donadier imagines the night as “another space-time, a space where madness can be expressed away from the gaze of others”, while Eva Ionesco has chosen pure fiction for her text this year. In a slightly different register, Alie Atai tells of her native Iran, while Adeline Dieudonné, Maria Laria, Chloe Mons and Colombe Schneck tell the night from their respective perspectives, in the shadow of nocturnal secrets, where hope, dreams and disappointments live and sometimes. dance until the early hours of the morning.
Paris Women’s Festival, January 11-13, 2024 at the Theater de la Pépinière
Source: Le Figaro
