Delphine Horvilleur is a rabbi, storyteller, former journalist and director of Tenou'a magazine. Here, she tells us the delightful story of Abraham Ajar, an ageless character - Jew, mouse, python, Muslim, Christian - the imaginary son of Émile Ajar, a fictional writer invented by Romain Gary, who in 1975 received an unthinkable second Prix Goncourt for his novel La vie devant soi. After Réflexions sur la question antisémite and Vivre avec nos morts (published by Grasset), she wrote this “monologue against identity” for the stage.
Johanna Nizard plays this indefinable character, who calls out to the world from the depths of his “Jewish hole”. He uses certificates to claim his “non-existence”, the fictitious son of history's greatest literary mystification.
We are only ever “what we think we are”, and in the face of belonging, discrimination and the ever-growing demand for identity, Delphine's theater dreams of moving forward, believing in others, inventing bridges on which to dance...
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Running time - 75 minutes
Room - Robert Krieps
Minimum age - 12
PRICE
Full price: 22€
Reduced price: 9€
Kulturpass: 1,5€
Where does it take place?
Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster
28 Rue Münster
Grund Luxembourg
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