La Baraque
The Shack
Written by Aiat Fayez
Directed by Ludovic Lagarde
Grand and Petit are hopeless, futureless men. Everything spirals out of control when they decide to build a homemade bomb and attack a shoe factory. A few days after the explosion, a man, who has seen everything, is exalted and Groß and Klein become rich with the business of terror.
One after the other, people start showing up at their place to place orders. Grand and Petit try to meet their demands, though they have no ideology and no political awareness of the political meaning of their acts. Using an elliptic form, La Baraque (The Shack) displays a succession of rough sketches, in which nothing never gets too serious: a terribly efficient comical mechanism. An acid and ludicrous phantasmagoria, in which a couple of cranks almost unintentionally make a fortune by going into war business.
Aiat Fayez was born in 1979. He is an author and playwright from France, where he studied philosophy in Paris. In 2009, he published his first book — Cycles des manières de mourir. He left his home country in 2010 and settled in Austria, where he has devoted himself to writing novels and plays. His first play, Les corps étrangers, was published in 2011. A year later, he published his second novel Terre vaine. His third play, Un autre, was published in 2014, while his newest play, La Baraque, was published in 2015.
La Baraque
Written by Aiat Fayez
Directed by Ludovic Lagarde
With Julien Allouf, Florence Janas, Alexandre Pallu, Tom Politano, Samuel Réhault, Julien Storini
Produced by the Comédie de Reims–CDN / Reims Scènes d’Europe
In the context of the TERRORisms project
Text published by the Arche Publishing House
The English and German translation is published as an ebook by CulturBooks
Download the English and German translation for free
Premiere on the 6 February 2015
Performing dates: 28 June 2015, 17:00 + 20:30
At the TERRORisms Festival, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany
Performance in French with English surtitles
Published on 10 June 2015
