MàD

MàD, like Mots à Défendre – mad, outsider, hybrid, daring and festive. MàD, like the cross-disciplinary festival that speaks to us! It is also a way of firmly asserting, over two weekends with the authors associated with the festival and the Théâtre National, Caroline Lamarche and Joëlle Sambi, that connections liberate through solidarity, conversation and reciprocity.

Authors, directors, performers, actors, musicians and singers from Belgium, Europe and the rest of the world possess this power, at once ordinary and dizzying: the power of words. How are we to live? How are we to overcome violence, soothe relationships and make them fruitful? How are we to build a theatre that triggers shifts and brings about change in people’s lives?

In ‘incandescent alloys’, the artists search, question and transform using a positive imagination. Their stories have a lasting effect on the way we feel and experience spaces, the way we are and behave. With a great deal of pleasure, common sense and eco-responsibility, they invent a solar future marked by equality in the present.

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