Feminine Hamlet, Tina Modotti Exhibition, Total Freedom Novel… Madame Figaro Culture Week

What if Hamlet was a woman?

Christian Jatahi attends Odéon, where he has been an artist associate since 2016. He is also at Centquatre-Paris, Schauspielhaus in Zurich, ArtsEmerson in Boston, and Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Another claim to fame of the director-director born in Rio in 1968. he won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale for all his theatrical work. For twenty years, his work has developed around the boundaries between artistic subjects, reality and fiction, actor and character, consciousness and unconscious, past and future… His theater is known for revisiting the classics in light. modern. After adjusting The three sisters, Miss Julie Or MacbethChristiane Jatahi takes over today Hamlet. “I’ve always wanted to produce Hamlet, it’s a play that’s always been with me. The turning point was when I had the idea of ​​making Hamlet a woman. A bit like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, except she was originally a woman. That will be the starting point. What would happen if Hamlet became a woman after four centuries?” he explains. Of which act. The play has been rewritten (even if 85% of the text is original) and the show focuses on three women: Ophelia, Gertrude and Hamlet, thus starring Clotilda Hesme. To be or not to be, he says. L.K.

Hamlet, by Shakespeare, a show by Christian Jatahi, until April 14 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris. theatre-odeon.eu:

Tina Modotti, Activist Center

the exhibition entitled Tina Modotti, the eye of the revolution The 2024 program of the Jeu de Paume opens in Paris, consisting exclusively of monographs by female greats. Influenced by Edward Weston, the long-studied work of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), an Italian who immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and became a seamstress, fashion model, actress, model, and photographer’s companion, before establishing herself in reportage. today it is noticed for its uniqueness and real value. Tina Modotti is part of a generation of women who made important contributions to photography in the 1920s. He has done dedicated work documenting the economic migration of Europeans to America, post-revolutionary land reform in Mexico, and the Rising. a militant mural (with the figure of Diego Rivera), or the struggle between Stalinists and Trotskyists after the Russian Revolution of 1917… This retrospective, which required six years of research, particularly shows the Mexican people (peasants, porters, market vendors, laundresses, etc.) and his report on the women of Tehuantepec, with symbolic. Woman with flag“I do not seek to create art, but honest photographs without resorting to gimmicks or gimmicks, while most photographers continue to seek artistic effects or imitate plastic expressions,” he said. The proof in 240 pictures. L.K.

Tina Modotti, the eye of the revolution, until May 12 at Jeu de Paume in Paris. gamepaume.org:

Hypnotic power

He can’t stand the clichés about mixed race as a bridge between cultures, he can’t take it anymore when he’s constantly asked to define himself as black or white or both, he suffocates not knowing what his identity is, where he is he. House. So young Adiku sets off to Togo in search of this barely known father before he disappears for good. With him goes the narrator, who, in the book’s brilliant revelation, we will never know who he is. Adiku’s double, one of his many and fluctuating identities, or the author himself, is responsible for the story of this journey in search of rest along the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana, Benin; but also in the South of America and its plantations, he remembered during the previous tour. So many areas marked by slavery and colonialism. Adiku is angry against humanity and its history, against all this suffering, against all this stupidity, of which racism is the most terrible component. Adiku moves geographically, but the area to which he belongs above all is literature. Writing is surprisingly rich, it derives its energy from constant risk-taking, poetry is forced to emerge not only from the perfect mastery of metaphor, but also from the incessant collision of ideas, sensations and feelings. Brutal lyricism that bounces around without worrying about standing up, modern, bountiful, and that always refuses to take itself seriously. So much so that the original theme is constantly shaken, surpassed, surpassed, to offer us a world where everything is mixed, mixed, elusive and with stunning beauty. IP:

Adikuby Raphaëlle Red, Éditions Grasset, 224 p., €19.50.