US EditionRape Trial of France's Feminist Icon Pelicot Retold on Vienna Stage
- A theatrical presentation featuring excerpts from the 2024 Avignon rape trial of Gisèle Pelicot will debut on June 18 at a church in Vienna.
- The public trial exposed over 50 defendants accused of raping Pelicot over nearly a decade, with her former husband Dominique receiving a 20-year sentence.
- Playwright Servane Decle, collaborating with Pelicot's lawyers, researched court transcripts and media reports to highlight issues like marital rape, porn, and technology's role.
- The premiere starts at 9:00 pm, runs up to seven hours, is free to attend, and aims to evoke collective trauma while continuing the debates around the trial.
- The performance expands public discussion on societal sexual violence and will be staged again in Avignon on July 18, while Pelicot plans to release memoirs next year.
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The theatre maker Milo Rau, who has been an advocate of artistic freedom for years, explains why he performs the stage version »The Pelicot Process« in Vienna just six months after Avignon's verdict. And he talks about the limits of political art.
Rape trial of France’s feminist icon Pelicot retold on Vienna stage
A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, a worldwide feminist icon will premiere in Vienna on Wednesday evening. The staging is the latest project of Vienna Festival director Milo Rau, one of many who followed last year's
Servane Dècle, playwright of the spectacle of the Pelicot trial, and Milo Rau, producer and artistic director of the Vienna Film Festival AFP Joe Klamar The playwright Servane Dècle and the director Milo Rau, artistic director of the Vienna Film Festival, presented the German version of the Pelicot Trial, which will be declined in French on 18 July at the Avignon Film Festival. "The facade is solid but inside is a field of ruins": actors will re…
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