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Théâtre de Sartrouville, ''Kaldûn''

Sartouville (France)

Projection on the red FMB - Macbeth 400 velvet curtain made with 65% vertical fullness.A flamboyant historical fresco, Kaldûn retraces the 1871 deportation of the Algerian Kabyle insurgents to New Caledonia, where they will join the survivors of another revolt: the leading figures of the Paris Commune.In New Caledonia, the Communards and Kabyles ...
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... they will encounter the New Caledonian Kanak rebels, themselves victims of French colonization.The curtain, measuring 15 x h 7 m, is equipped with 10 lifting points and is opened here with a contour.Abdelwaheb Sefsaf created and directed ...
... a monumental musical show that revolves around three peoples, three revolts, and three continents to tell the story of the colonization of the archipelago.

The technical drawing by chief builder Guillaume Ponroy of a sail that will be made of white ASP - Spi fabric and hoisted on the sailing ship that will transport Algerian and Communard prisoners to New Caledonia.Spectators will face a scene of extraordinary visuality and theatrical and scenographic symbolism in which the vessel ...
Projection on the red FMB - Macbeth 400 velvet curtain made with 65% vertical fullness.A flamboyant historical fresco, Kaldûn retraces the 1871 deportation of the Algerian Kabyle insurgents to New Caledonia, where they will join the survivors of another revolt: the leading figures of the Paris Commune.In New Caledonia, the Communards and Kabyles ...
... is represented in cross-section and divided into two parts.Sentenced to deportation, packed like cattle on a six-month journey, the lifers join in desperation and in the singing, in an unpredictable cultural mélange that will soon include the rebels of the archipelago.Watch the teaser of Kaldûn.
Kaldûn
Musical theatre show
Music
Aligator (Baux/Sefsaf)
with the ensemble Canticum Novum
First night

Scenography
Souad Sefsaf
Costume design
Emmanuelle Thomas
Light design
Alexandre Juzdzewski
Video design
Raphaëlle Bruyas
Technical direction
Arnaud Perrat
Stage direction
Abdelwaheb Sefsaf

Season
2023 / 2025

Materials used in this production

ASP - Spi

Muslin and canvas

FFE - Fedora

Velvets

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

FMB - Macbeth 400

Velvets

Venetian curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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