| Length / Year: | 120’, 2019, Italian premiere |
|---|---|
| By: | Christiane Jatahy |
| Based on: | Homer’s Odyssey |
| With: | Abbas Abdulelah Al’Shukra, Abdul Lanjesi, Abed Aidy, Adnan Ibrahim Nghnghia, Ahmed Tobasi, Bepkapoy, Blessing Opoko, Corina Sabbas, Emilie Franco, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa, Fepa Teixeira, Frank Sithole, Iketi Kayapó, Irengri Kayapó, Ivan Tirtiaux, Jehad Obeid, Joseph Gaylard, Jovial Mbenga, Kroti, Laerte Késsimos, Leon David Salazar, Linda Michael Mkhwanasi, Maroine Amimi, Mbali Ncube, Melina Martin, Mustafa Sheta, Nadège Meden, Nambulelo Meolongwara, Noji Gaylard, Ojo Kayapó, Omar Al Sbaai, Phana, Pitchou Lambo, Pravinah Nehwati, Pykatire, Ramyar Hussaini, Ranin Odeh, Renata Hardy, Vitor Araújo, Yara Ktaish |
| Concept, staging, direction (film): | Christiane Jatahy |
| Artistic collaborator, set design, lighting: | Thomas Walgrave |
| Director of photography: | Paulo Camacho |
| Music: | Domenico Lancelotti, Vitor Araujo |
| Cameras: | Paulo Camacho, Thomas Walgrave |
| Sound design: | Alex Fostier |
| Mixing (film): | Breno Furtado, Pedro Vituri |
| Stage manager and video operator: | Stefano Serra |
| Stage operator: | Dimitri Wauters |
| Light operators: | Isabel Scheck, Juan Borrego |
| Sound operators: | David Defour, Jeison Pardo Rojas |
| Company collaboration and coordination: | Henrique Mariano |
| Editing (film): | Christiane Jatahy, Paulo Camacho |
| Production and touring: | Juliette Thieme, Matthieu Defour |
| Production: | Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, SESC São Paulo |
| Co-production: | Ruhrtriennale, Comédie de Genève, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Teatro Municipal São Luiz, Festival d’Avignon, Le Maillon-Théâtre de Strasbourg Scène européenne, Riksteatern, Temporada Alta |
| With the support of: | The Freedom Theatre (Palestine), Outreach Foundation (South Africa) |
| With international support from: | Embassy of Brazil in France, Embassy of France in Brazil, Consulate of Brazil in Ramallah, Embassy of Brazil in Lebanon, Embassy of Brazil in Greece, Embassy of Belgium in Lebanon |
Theatre
Christiane Jatahy - The Lingering Now
Description
The Lingering Now is not a play. To paraphrase the opening of What if They Went to Moscow?, it’s maybe a movie and maybe it isn’t. It’s maybe a play but it starts like a movie. The heart of the piece is cinematic. But it’s through the film that we get on stage, so it is also an odyssey that leads us to theatre. There are innumerable odysseys themselves made up of other odysseys. We went to certain places in the world to film people living their own odysseys, not to produce a documentary, but rather to offer them a fiction through which they could recount what they are experiencing. A play built from the Odyssey with passages from the original but which respects my language and where reality and fiction are constantly combining with each other. We filmed in Palestine, Libya, Greece, South Africa, and Amazon. A sort of relay race between many Odysseus – men and women. The story goes from one place to another, a single journey with multiple actors in a virtual space. Even if they don’t meet each other, the story continues and numerous facets of the work are multiplied in the film and on the stage to eventually touch us in our hearts.