Éditions Lieux-Dits - Texts of the shows
En Route-Kaddish
David Geselson sets out to write and reinvent the story of his grandfather, Yehouda, who died in Jerusalem in 2009. Having left his native Lithuania in 1934 to settle in Palestine, Yehouda lived through the stages of the construction of the State of Israel, from the ideal of the kibbutz to the tragedy of the Nakba.
Grandfather and grandson recount their stories, set in Jerusalem, Gorcht, Paris and Tokyo: a man whose ideals were shattered, and a young man who inherits a history too heavy to bear.
Book in French.
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Neandertal
Neandertal, stages scientists that attempt to rewrite the history of human origins by deciphering fragments of ancient DNA. Life and research mingle, collide, and feed off each other, and their discoveries, torn from the solitude of laboratories, shatter every notion of racial or ethnic purity.
Book in French.
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Unwritten-Letters (Lettres non-écrites)
This book is the result of a multitude of encounters. Author, actor and director David Geselson has been writing for years based on a simple idea: asking people he meets questions and offering to write for them the letter they have always wanted to write, if it existed.
Staged since 2016, these letters have found an audience that discovers texts expressing ‘love, hate, loneliness or reconciliation, sometimes beyond death’ (Brigitte Salino, Le Monde).
This book is like a first anthology of these unique correspondences.
Book in French.
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Silence and fear
Nina Simone carries with her 4 centuries of history. Silence and fear tells the story of part of her life, and of History that goes through her. How does the fear of being destroyed, because of who you are, leave indelible scars in the bodies and minds of those who suffer it, and are passed on, generation after generation? From both sides of the Atlantique, our histories are the fruit of the upheavals caused by the development of the empires that would later become Europe, on the inhabited lands of the Americas from the 15th century onwards.
So how do we tell a common story?
What legitimacy is there for this?
Book in French and English.
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