La Relève

A new cycle

<em>Radio live – La Relève</em>, a new cycle of stories from around the world brought to the stage by the Radio live collective.

Radio live – La Relève, a new cycle of stories from around the world brought to the stage by the Radio live collective.

The show takes two forms

portraits (1h15)
intersecting narratives (2h10)

Premiere September 5, 2021 at Théâtre de la Ville de Paris – Espace Cardin, as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris

As an extension of the Radio live project carried out on stage since 2013, where some 50 young people of over 30 nationalities shared their stories, Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin (co-founders, with Caroline Gillet, of the documentary show Radio live) open a new cycle of this unparalleled collective and international project, which resonates with friendships and long-term dialogue between committed young people from all over the world: La Relève.

A new stage form, with filmed images in which the faces of previous generations and those of the next enter the story.

They range in age from 20 to 30 on stage. But between 6 and 85 on screen.

We like to provoke encounters that shouldn't or couldn't have happened. We've created a community of committed young people who take turns telling their stories.

We like to provoke encounters that shouldn’t or couldn’t have happened. We’ve created a community of committed young people who take turns telling their stories.

They haven’t prepared anything. They trust us.

From these first 10 years of encounters and documentation, for the radio and for the stage project, we have preserved sound recordings, videos and photographs, and compiled drawings, archives, traces and memories around their stories.

Today, we’re filming in the homes of those we know, bringing their landscapes, their families, their parents, their grandparents, their countries, to the stage.

We’re also bringing in a new generation: those aged between 11 and 20 today.

They don’t have the same view as their elders of the conflicts they’ve lived through, their desires for the future, their parents’ generation…

La Relève is already writing its own history.

We are no longer the only ones to question them: their world questions them.

The dialogue between the spoken word on stage and film images has been reinvented, and the journeys we have made in preparation for this show have enabled us to gather unprecedented video material, to provoke and record exchanges between the generations, to give us the opportunity to see and hear different points of view on common histories, shared territories and a society in movement.

<em>La Relève</em> takes the form of two scenic propositions: a choral form in which we witness the intersecting narratives of two “characters”; and individual portraits, each of which can be seen as an episode in a series.

La Relève takes the form of two scenic propositions: a choral form in which we witness the intersecting narratives of two “characters”; and individual portraits, each of which can be seen as an episode in a series.

With Emma Prat playing live music for the portrait forms, and Dom La Nena for the cross-narrative forms, Radio live – La Relève explores the staging of documentary speech through live writing between filmed images and spontaneous speech. The result is a continuous dialogue between stage and screen.