Theatre - "Un barrage contre le Pacifique"
Dates
Tuesday 12 November 2024 at 20:00
Tuesday 12 November 2024 at 20:00
Location
Théâtre Princesse Grace
Théâtre Princesse Grace
Address
12, avenue d'Ostende
12, avenue d'Ostende
Category
Theatre
Theatre
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2024
12
Nov
Theatre - "Un barrage contre le Pacifique"
1931, southern French Indochina. A woman lives alone with her two children, Joseph and Suzanne (20 and 16) on the Cambodian coast, near the port of Ram. They have an old Citroën B12. The mother played the piano in a cinema for 15 years, and has saved up to buy her own plot of land, which turns out to be unfarmable. Every year, it is flooded by the sea, which the mother doggedly refers to as the Pacific Ocean. Battling the elements, she eventually persuades the authorities and local peasant farmers to build a dam.
