"You Should Be Doing Cinema Like Omar Sy Rather than Theater" : Edjih Nlend Matong Tells of the Racism Suffered at the Festival Off d'Avignon

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While in Avignon to play Shakespeare's Othello at the Off Festival, the Commedia Nostra troupe, composed of young people from Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis, faced a series of "racist remarks." One of the actors, Edjih Nlend Matong, tells us about what he experienced and how his theatrical company cut short these attacks.

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"We are despised because we are young, racialized, of the 93 and for the majority, women." After the sexist behaviors in ticketing denounced by the team of the Red Gorge theatre, these are racist behaviors that have been...