Pièce de théâtre DOUZE

Description

The performance of *DOUZE* aligns with the themed week dedicated to combating gender-based and sexual violence (GBV) and violence against women. This performance will be followed by a discussion with the artists.



Author(s) Diane Chavelet

Direction/Artistic Guidance Diane Chavelet

Premiere Date November 2026

Company Compagnie Paupières Mobiles

Synopsis

“Douze” was inspired by the femicide of Alexia Silva Costa in 2016 on the island of Oléron. Not by a news story, but by a hole: the one where the body of a fifteen-year-old girl was buried. One of her classmates knocked her unconscious, strangled her, and then stabbed her twenty-seven times—twelve of those stabs after she was already dead—because she had said no. The play, however, is not the story of this brutal murder, but rather that of a silenced voice, which resounds from the limbo where unspoken words wander, and calls to be brought to life through staging, music, and the body: an attempt to restore to language what violence has stolen.

*Twelve*, narrated by A., is at times a cry of rebellion, at times a hymn to life. A single line of dialogue unfolding across as many songs that questions the legal and social responses to femicide.



The text is a recipient of ARTCENA’s creation grant and also the winner of the 2024 Jean Guerrin Fellowship, initiated by the City of Montreuil.

Suitable for all audiences

Language(s): French

Estimated runtime (in minutes): 90



DOUZE — premiere November 2026 Text and direction: Diane Chavelet · Cast: Mélodie Adda, Valérian Geay, Anne Le Guernec · Live music: Victor Pitoiset · Lighting: Simon Anquetil · Video: Doris Lanzmann · Set design: Big Time Studio · Choreography: Georgia Ives.

Production: Cie Paupières Mobiles · Co-production: Théâtre municipal Berthelot Jean-Guerrin, Montreuil.

Residencies: Théâtre Berthelot, Théâtre des Roches, Le Centquatre, Théâtre de l’Arsenal (Château d’Oléron)

With support from La Chartreuse-CNES, the City of Montreuil, ARTCENA, the Jeune Théâtre National, the Invisibles / Invincibles, Le Nouveau Théâtre de l’Atalante, the 3T—Théâtre du troisième type, the Théâtre Jacques Carat (Cachan), the Warm Up Festival (Montpellier), CDC Rochefort-Océan, Adami, Spedidam, SACD, Le Centquatre (Paris), and the À mots découverts collective.

The play is the recipient of the Jean-Guerrin Berthelot grant (2024) and ARTCENA’s national creation grant (2025), and was selected by the À mots découverts collective (25–26) and Pépinière du Nouveau Monde (2026).

Artists in residence from August 24 to 31, 2026, in the performance hall at the Arsenal - Citadelle.



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