As part of the 7th Edition of the Prix RFI Théâtre 2020, 13 unpublished texts proposed by 218 candidates from 20 countries were preselected, including two texts by Haitian authors :

Le Bal de l’incontinence (The Incontinence Ball) : by Djevens Fransaint (Haiti)

A group of improvised family members squat in a decrepit bourgeois house. The father is the tyrant of this little kingdom. Confronted with the outside world by the visit of a doctor director of a clinic and funeral directors or of an emissary of the State in charge of erasing the family from History, the mother and the two sons resist. An absurd and cruel theater where each sequence revolves around a wacky adventure...

Le Purgatoire : by Naïza Fadianie Saint-Germain (Haiti)

In purgatory, Lili, follower of Rimbaud and transsexual, gives a grammar lesson to the prude Juliette Capulet and to Linda Lovelace, porn actress: they must analyze a verse from Eleven Thousand Yards by Guillaume Apollinaire! Tamar joins them with an erotic poem by Paul Verlaine. The anachronistic characters of this crazy comedy confront each other with naughty, cinematographic and literary references, and attack machismo...

The winner of the 2020 RFI Theater Prize will be announced and presented to the winner on September 27 in Limoges (France) as part of the Zebrures of autumn festival "Francophonies - Descritures à la scène".

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