2019 Cannibal Moon
What an immense joy it was to see Cannibal moon of Julien Delmaire, at Rabinest theatre, Tokyo, played by Fuji Scène Francophone, and it was a world premiere. Special thanks for students, professors and coordinators from university of North Carolina at Greensboro, who were visiting Japan at the right time. A beautiful performance, fabulous actors, dancer-singer, fantastic lights and décor.
About the author, Julien Delmaire : Becoming very polular these years in Paris, in France and around the world, in literary salons, festivals and events, he multiplies his poem-reading performances on stage everywhere (South Africa, Haiti, Maroc, Japan...). He was invited as a special guest to Fukuoka, Japan, too, in a conference for Professor of French in Asia. He held many workshops in places as schools, psychiatric hospitals, prisons and libraries. He also did a television program for France O and has a blog on literature "Nous, Laminaires".
Story: In a world which resembles ours, in time which could be our future, Hegessippe, entomologist, in search of a rare butterfly, ventures beyond the walls and into a no man's land. There, arrive Baptiste and Fidel. These two, one white and the other black, stay together for their survival and a horrible secret bind them together that will be revealed a little by little. Baptiste is a skull-hunter, and Fidel is a cunning moralist.
When a scream of a woman echoes in the middle of the night, they have to learn to depend on each other, because if not ... Hegessippe : Dominik Pyka
Cast（alphabtic order）
Louis Fievet：Fidel
Louis Solo Martinel：father of Baptiste and Fidel (Hector le Balafré)
Dominik Pyka：Hegessippe
Kanako Shiratori : Singer
Cedric Watine：Baptiste
2017 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
This play is based on Shakespeare's "Macbeth'' and focuses on Lady Macbeth's ambition and cunning nature. These days, the same line of adaptation is accepted and played around the world. We received comments that said the audience enjoyed many magical and humorous scenes, and the lighting effects were wonderful, so they were able to enjoy the whole show of about two hours.
2010~2013 An Alternative Tempest
This is "An Alternative Tempest", an adaptation of Aimé Césaire's "A tempest". He was a renowned french poet, playwright and politician from Martinique, a french island in the Caribbeans. The story is about a duke from Milan. His name is Prospero, now exiled on a deserted island with his daughter, Miranda. He is a magician who plots to revenge those who are responsible for his misfortune. The time has come when there was a shipwrech on his shore with Alonzo, a king of Milan and his subjects on board. It's a perfect setting for an inevitable tragedy...
Video: Bob Leenears
2007,2009 Salsa Sur Seine
It was a big success for Fuji Scène Francophone. There was danse, music and love, all the good elements of what people appreciate.
Rémi, a young student at the conservatoire in Paris was about to graduate, if he could play his classical piece to the judges' liking. But he couldn't refuse anymore to play instead, the music he passionately loved. "Salsa!!". He left the concert hall and went to join his musician friends. But they wouldn't accept him because he didn't have the right colour of skin. For his passion, he had to reinvent himself and that's exactly what he did. The story gets complicated when he met Nataly who fell in love with him who wasn't really who she thought he was!
Anyway everybody loved it and with the music played live on the stage,you couldn't resisit to move your body. At the end professional dansers and audiences dansed together and that really was a big finale.
2009 The Odyssey of the Oddness
It's a play for the occassion of Yokohama Port festival. When Lafcadio Hearn was a journalist in Louisiana, he collected strange, singular stories. From his experiences in Martinique he wrote "Two years in the french West Indies". Then he landed in Yokohama, Japan in 1890. This play assembled stories he wrote and collected all those years. There are skeletons, an ominous bird from tropical island, a snow lady in mountainous contryside of Japan. In a way it's a trip into his psyche.
Video : Bob Leenears (Podcast Chocolat)