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Social Injustice

Social Injustice Paul David Y oung Qui a tué mon père [Who Killed My Father], a performance by Édouard Louis, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, May 18–June 5, 2022. douard Louis tells the tragedy of his father’s life in Qui a tué mon père [Who Killed My Father], the story of a French factory worker born in the provinces Éand doomed to die there through his own seemingly inevitable life choices. While admittedly America’s hardcore viewers of Fox News are unlikely to see the performance, this is their story en français. It is compelling and radically pertinent to world politics, and its stage recreation, with Louis playing himself, relies on that strength in its simple means of presentation. The French-language work is a co-production of Théâtre de la Ville Paris and Berlin’s Schaubühne, one of that city’s premiere venues, which has consistently produced fearless contemporary theatre, and where Thomas Ostermeier has been a director and member of the artistic management since 1999. Louis’s A History of Violence, documenting the night he was raped repeatedly and almost murdered, an incident compounded afterward by the trauma of multiple police interrogations, had been presented by Ostermeier and the Schaubühne in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

Social Injustice

David Young, Paul
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Volume 44 (3): 6 – Sep 1, 2022
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Paul David Y oung Qui a tué mon père [Who Killed My Father], a performance by Édouard Louis, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, May 18–June 5, 2022. douard Louis tells the tragedy of his father’s life in Qui a tué mon père [Who Killed My Father], the story of a French factory worker born in the provinces Éand doomed to die there through his own seemingly inevitable life choices. While admittedly America’s hardcore viewers of Fox News are unlikely to see the performance, this is their story en français. It is compelling and radically pertinent to world politics, and its stage recreation, with Louis playing himself, relies on that strength in its simple means of presentation. The French-language work is a co-production of Théâtre de la Ville Paris and Berlin’s Schaubühne, one of that city’s premiere venues, which has consistently produced fearless contemporary theatre, and where Thomas Ostermeier has been a director and member of the artistic management since 1999. Louis’s A History of Violence, documenting the night he was raped repeatedly and almost murdered, an incident compounded afterward by the trauma of multiple police interrogations, had been presented by Ostermeier and the Schaubühne in

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