Theatre
La Guerre des femmes
Not translated into English
Bernard Zadi Zaourou · 1985
Synopsis
In the first days of the world, women form a community apart, which wages war on that of men. With this myth of origin, the play mixes figures from elsewhere, Scheherazade and the sultan Shahriyar, Mami Wata, as well as Bété, Wê and Adioukrou tales. At the heart of the women's camp, the mother, Mahié, initiates her daughter, Gôbo, into the knowledge of her body and of the power it gives over man.
Context
Created in October 1985 by the Didiga company, in a staging by the author, the play forms, according to Jean Derive, the third part of the initiatory theatre he drew from the didiga; it was published only in 2001, in Abidjan, followed by La Termitière. Its twenty scenes bring together nineteen named characters. Derive sees in it a kind of testament, in which men and women are only the figures of any otherness capable of engendering intolerance.
Who it is for
A play in twenty tableaux, in French, written for the stage and published sixteen years after its premiere.
Prizes and reception
Abidjan.net regards it as one of its author's most accomplished plays, the one in which his theatre reaches its peak.
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