Contest | Win tickets for the show "La putain respectueuse" at the théâtre POCHE / GVE

Synopsis 

La putain respectueuse

In the South of the United States, in the 40's, a prostitute is condemned to choose between lying to satisfy a white man and banishment by clearing the name of a black man... An emblematic play by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, created at the POCHE in 1948, it returns 75 years later.

On 18 March 1948, Jean-Paul Sartre's La P... respectueuse inaugurated the Théâtre de Poche on the 1^st floor of 19 Grand-Rue in Geneva's Old Town. Sartre uses the blatant state racism to demonstrate the responsibility of each person in the face of history. In the 1940s in the heart of a small town in the southern United States, Lizzie, a white prostitute just arrived from New York, witnesses the murder of a black man by a white man. The senator's son devises a cruel plan to convince her to sign a false statement to clear the assassin’s name. Since the play's premiere in 1948, feminist, anti-racist and post-colonial movements have sharpened our critical eyes on the representation of women and racialized people in theatre. Some 75 years later, all these demands and the place given to the theater in each one * question this play and give it a renewed topicality.

Keeping Sartre's existentialist theses, but with his critical tools for these burning and urgent questions, Selma Alaoui seizes this theatrical machine with three actresses to propose 75 years later an enlightening, brilliant and bright version.