An old radio set and a microphone placed on a wooden table, two school chairs.
Dressed simply, Romane Bohringer and Diouc Koma come on stage, put down their bags, arrange their files and take their seats.
The first interprets Antjie Krog, the poet and journalist born in 1952, in Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State, in South Africa.
This show-story soberly titled
My country, my skin
is taken from her book
Country of My Skull (
published by Actes Sud in 2004 under the title
La Douleur des mots
), in a translation by Vanessa Seydoux.
It has already been adapted for the cinema by John Boorman, with Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche (
In My Country
).
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