Save the date! French Theater 2022

SAVE THE DATE

When:   December 9 and December 10, 2022 at 19:30

Where: Ecole d’Humanité, Grosser Saal

The Ecole d’Humanité is pleased to present, "Le Dormeur du Val", a student-written play put up by our French Theater program.

The inspiration for the play is the French poem, "Le Dormeur du Val", a classic sonnet written by French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) when he was just 16 years old. 

Elle pleure (she cries), il pleut (it rains). These two verbs are near homonyms.

In this play, the words are dependent on each other, because when the child cries, it rains. And then, something terrible takes place – all of a sudden, the human child can no longer cry, and it will not rain. The world of the play becomes dryer, and dryer, and descends into a climatic catastrophe.

Je déclare la sécheresse universelle (I declare a universal drought), says the girl. Thus the connection between il pleut and elle pleure, between nature and culture, between environment and man is broken.

Climate change does not exist, says the dictator. Will he, his minister and his army, succeed in making the child cry?

This is how the story begins. What will happen next? 

Join us, at the Ecole d’Humanité, and find out!