Endless Vigils at Crête-à-Pierrot
Written by Dominique Batraville (HAITI)
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Translated by Peter Consenstein
Part of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center’s PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2014
The dead and the living, who “walk on the bones of the dead,” are united by a wish to bring their dying nation together once again by physically and metaphysically reviving Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first leader of the revolution for an independent Haiti.
The reading will be accompanied by a reading of Batraville’s poem "La Danse des pieds," with English translation by Alessandra Benedicty, and two short films: Élégie de Port-au-Prince, by Aïda Maigre-Touchet and featuring Dominique Batraville – a post-earthquake elegy to the Haitian capitol – and La Danse des pieds, also starring Batraville, directed by Kendy Vérilus. The event will conclude with a discussion with Thomas C. Spear, Professor of French, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Présentation, Dominique Batraville (entretien).
L'ange de charbon, Dominique Batraville's novel just published with Éditions Zulma.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
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