Inconditionnelles
© Lisa Como
Hopeless devotion is the unconditional acceptance and submission, but also a total engagement, what is taken, suffered, but also what is given, shared - completely….
Hopelessly devoted celebrates love. It’s about loving “as much as one can” and “as much as one knows”. Love that blinds and degrades, the toxic love that Chess feels for a man as brilliant as he is violent, the one that put her “under lock and key”, the love of two women, Chess and Serena, so powerful that it creates that perfect space in which, in the semi-darkness of a prison cell, “nothing is lacking”, but is so deprived that it cannot survive outside the prison.
In a women’s prison, Chess and Serena share the same cell. They love each other. When Serena gets paroled, both women are devastated. To escape, Chess sings and writes songs. She thinks about her crime and injury and composes a song for her daughter. In her quest for redemption through music, she never imagined being caught up in her own past.
This play features original songs composed by Kae Tempest and Dan Carey, on lyrics by Kae Tempest. The original scores are reproduced at the end of the work.
Text Kae Tempest
Music Dan Carey
French translation and stage direction Dorothée Munyaneza
Musical collaboration Ben Lamar Gay
Set and light design Camille Duchemin
Costumes Lila John
Artistic coordination Virginie Dupray
Assistant stage direction Lisa Como
With
Sondos Belhassen Silver
Bwanga Pilipili Serena
Davide-Christelle Sanvee La gardienne
Grace Seri Chess
Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
Coproduction Théâtre National de Strasbourg ; Festival d’Automne à Paris ; Théâtre de Namur ; La Muse en Circuit – Centre national de création musicale ; L'Arc - Scène Nationale Le Creusot
With the support of Cercle de l'Athénée et des Bouffes du Nord and its Foundation housed at the Académie des beaux-arts
With the support of la Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon – Centre national des écritures du spectacle
Set and costumes made by the workshops of Théâtre National de Strasbourg
Inconditionnelles (Hopelessly Devoted) by Kae Tempest, translated by Dorothée Munyaneza, is published and represented by L’ARCHE – éditeur & agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com
Duration: 1h30
Show performed in French, subtitled in English on December 1st, 2024.
Prices
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Full price Cat. 1 = 36€ Cat. 2 = 26€ Cat. 3 = 18€ |
Reduced price (1) * Cat. 1 = 30€ Cat. 2 = 24€ Cat. 3 = 15€ |
Reduced price (2) ** Cat. 1 = 15€ Cat. 2 = 10€ Cat. 3 = 10€ |
Youth price *** Cat. 1 = 15€ Cat. 2 = 10€ Cat. 3 = 10€ |
Season ticket prices
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Full price Cat. 1 = 28€ Cat. 2 = 22€ Cat. 3 = 14€ |
Reduced price (1) * Cat. 1 = 24€ Cat. 2 = 20€ Cat. 3 = 12€ |
Reduced price (2) ** Cat. 1 = 12€ Cat. 2 = 8€ Cat. 3 = 8€ |
Youth price (3) *** Cat. 1 = 12€ Cat. 2 = 8€ Cat. 3 = 8€ |
* Reduced price (1) : over 65 years old, unemployed (proof required) and group price (from 10 people)
** Reduced price (2) : RSA and minimum social benefits (proof required)
*** Youth price : younger than 26 years old, student in drama or music schools (proof required)
Press contact
MYRA / Rémi Fort and Lucie Martin
01 40 33 79 13 / myra@myra.fr / www.myra.fr
Touring contact
Head of Production and Booking / Mara Patrie
01 46 07 32 58 / mara.patrie@bouffesdunord.com
Booking manager / Pierre Bousquet
01 70 64 22 40 / pierre.bousquet@bouffesdunord.com