Quand la ville se lève

A theatrical fresco combining soil artificialization, rampant urbanization and invisible resistance. As farmers prepare to set fire to a model of a city that will destroy their land, the project’s architect sees a haunting memory resurface: the struggle her mother waged to avoid being evicted from her apartment. In this documented fiction, Charlotte Lagrange explores the relentless mechanics of evictions and resistance, from rural exodus to gentrification. Through a transgenerational female polyphony, stories intersect beneath the disturbing light of a red moon, bringing forth past and present struggles to inhabit the world. Working with the Scène de recherche, director and author Charlotte Lagrange met residents of the Saclay plateau, young and old, some who had been there for a long time and others who had recently arrived. From these stories came a theatrical fresco combining soil artificialization, rampant urbanization and invisible resistance. The show follows a committed landscape architect who delves back into the memory of her own family’s eviction. At the same time, a couple confronts a strange plant emerging from their floorboards. Interwoven stories that question dispossession and those who resist it. The press is talking about it. Text and direction by Charlotte Lagrange With Mathias Bentahar, Cécile Coustillac, Chloé Ploton, Olive Malleville and Jean-Baptiste Verquin