Fast Forward 2024

The theatre is a good place to put things “on trial”. The men in ancient Athens thought so too and debated questions about political rule on the “skene”. With the help of the poet Aeschylus, 2500 years ago, they put the avenging goddesses of matricide, the Erinyes, out of action in the ORESTEIA and had Athena, who was born from Zeus’s head, proclaim that reason was now male. Pretty clever of you, guys. But you didn’t do such a great job with the whole reason thing. Even though you had so much time. But now you’re off the air for a bit. Now the other half of the planet is fighting back. Without restraint! Bloody! And full scale!
RAGE is a cathartic play of vengeance about the everyday sexism that women deal with from men. Four women, who constantly switch roles, act out the sexual harassment they experience in their everyday lives and let themselves get really pissed off. The woman who plays the “bloke” takes the moustache and then the techniques they’ve learned of avoidance, swallowing your anger and tolerance go flying overboard. Someone’s going to get a punch – it’s merciless and the fight choreographies are badass.

Emilienne Flagothier, b. 1993, studied Theatre Directing at the INSAS School of Performing Arts in Brussels. She is a co-founder of the self-managed theatre collective ASBL ASBL and active in several sociopolitical networks. RAGE is the second production she has created within an institutional framework at a state theatre. This piece premiered at the MARS Theatre in Mons in 2023 and was coproduced by the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.

With Pénélope Guimas, lesca Herfeld, Pauline Victoria, Castélie Yalombo

Text & Directing Emilienne Flagothier

Dramaturgy Céline Estenne Artistic Collaboration Magrit Coulon Scenography Camille Lavaud Costume Selma Raphard Sound Design Louise Blancardi Technical Director & Lighting Design Emma Laroche Combat Choreography Emilie Guillaume Set Construction Camille Lavaud, Elisa González Frias, Giulia Tartari, Robin Divrande Photos Margot Briand (Portrait Emilienne Flagothier © Privat)

Produktion / Production Mars Mons arts de la scène Koproduktion Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

With the support from Ministere de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service du Théâtre, taxshelter.be, ING & tax-shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, les Halles de Schaerbeek, la Bellone and the Jacques Franck cultural centre.

The performances in the framework of Fast Forward take place with the kind support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International.