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WE NEED AMERICA
Auteur : The Ivorian Koffi KWAHULE
Director : Sidiki BAKABA

- DISTRIBUTION

.OPOLO : BEUGRE Djepp
.TOPITOPI : Michaël DANON
.BADIBADI : Cécile PANGO

- PRODUCTION : Ayala BAKABA

Interviews

Theater : Abidjan's Courrier - N°534
"We need America," in large première.Décor a dilapidated shack in the ghetto atmosphere grave with human bones. Three characters: Badibadi (wife), Topitopi (husband), Opolo (friend of the couple). What are they? Trying to sew a few shreds of life remained in them and rebuild. Why? Because they seem to have crossed a thousand lives. Now they have reached themselves. So the balance sheet. Review of a life. Memories of a past that occur in platelets, the wall now. Conversion dialog usual, sometimes in a crude language, too raw even perhaps a banal story, very ordinary bread. Bread eaten together, shared bread. Estates called and left unsaid when the trio Badibadi-Topitopi-Opolo binds, loosens, is shocking and collides to undo and redo. In any case, "We need America," Koffi Kwahulé is a subversion of assigned or real and unreal mingle, mingle. Tragedy, comedy, tragedy and comedy of the absurd and dehumanizing life. Unpredictability and improvisation mood of a room (say as a story) in the cozy sunken (one could also say rude) when speaking of a language spoken and written language mate smoothly. Crazy, crazy what. Since when a woman who eats the bread she can piss crude oil? And if that happened? What will her husband, and friend of her husband, who dreams (nt) profit? Profit, the dream of profit, speculation and, ultimately, the A-me-ri-that American dream, thee-me-ri-as dreams where the excess would mix to challenge the sky is what we need, we need the A-me-ri-as. And the goose that lays the golden egg in all this? It's a crazy story, a story of mad breath should not be missed. It will premiere this Saturday, September 8, 2005 starting at 19 am sharp, the green city of the Palace of Culture in Abidjan, under the Birds Books on thy banks of the lagoon Ebrié. Directed by Sidiki Bakaba for a piece of Kwahulé Koffi, one of the most prolific playwrights, and more assertive (removes d'Ivoire. Distribution of the names of the Ivorian scene which assertive and growing: Beugré Djepp (in the role of Opole), Michael Danon (in one of Topitopi) and Cecile Pango (in the other Badibadi). The poster is and the director and playwright, but also the distribution give the show a show. We can not dream for a better season Artistic Palace opens from Saturday.

Theater : Abidjan's Courrier - N°537
"We need America": The consecration of the training of actors from the Actors' Studio

Theater - The artistic season 2005-2006 of the Palace of Culture in Abidjan was opened last Saturday with the premiere of "We need America". A play written by playwright Ivorian Koffi Kwahulé.

When the curtain opens on the set loose ends of a tunnel "to the moods burial of human bones, three characters, Topitopi and Badibadi, his pregnant wife, Opolo share with the family friend, a bread, a fresh bread, good bread, without stalling the belly becomes a pretext for palaver of Negroes who tear their worries and troubles of this. And then that Badibadi, pushing the bathroom door, the light shows. A light in the image of a miracle smells like oil. Yes, Badibadi piss oil! And our three characters, as the valuable advice Opolo, then began to imagine all that black gold will rise as a transformation in their life: fame, wealth, fortune ... But in the relentless pursuit of glory, Badibadi swells, and explodes before metamorphosing into "a woman's arm orchid bread. Another miracle even more extraordinary and sensational that could lead them in a country as huge as their dream of America.
"We need America! "The title of this piece with four characters - Topitopi, Badibadi, Opolo and the bride lookalike Badibadi and wife Opolo - written by the Ivorian Koffi Kwahulé was represented premiere, Saturday, October 8 last on the stage of "theater" of the Palace of Culture in Abidjan.
This piece outsized, complex, funny, relaxed and exciting, reveals three tables, background jazz and blues, that Africa has more beautiful, more ugly, more violent, more adventurous of more imaginary. She painted scenes of everyday life in Africa where hours are lost in the palaver without head or tail, where idleness, poverty and idleness push people to believe in lies to tear the usual problems in conduct unreasonably unstructured discussions about anything and on themes in conflict, to make and break relationships without clear objectives. Beyond the laughter, "We need America! "Looks at our expectations for social success and in the middle of African immigration to those worn by the adventure, invented another life and make the challenge of finding the end of the journey.
In a staged Sidiki Bakaba assisted Beiblo Gilles, roles were majestically interpreted by Cecile Pango (Badibadi, then the bride), Beugré Djepp (Opolo) and Michael Danon (Topitopi), and mounted the stage by comedians the Actors' Studio. "Everything you just saw is the only book comedians. They all participated in assembling this representation and worked without me, "said Sidiki Bakaba. A confession and a highly successful initiative that ensure the professionalism of the actors of the Actors' Studio after four years of intensive training and technical trades of stage and screen.
"It was amazing," exclaimed Mrs. Dagri Lucia, representing Mrs Anne Messou, Minister of Culture and Francophonie. "I expect that we call" the theater in a wheelchair. And there I was pleasantly surprised because I saw a show far more removed. " As she wowed the audience, both by the game prestigious actors and the quality of the work performed, could not help expressing his satisfaction at the end of the performance. "It is a very extraordinary that even when taking on the news. But I really liked how the director has gathered all together, "added the writer Diegou Bailly.
Announcing the colors and the next artistic activities 2005-2006 of Palace of Culture in Abidjan, "We need America! "Program in the coming days, deserves the removal of the Ivorian public to support young talent and experience the pleasures of a good theater.

Yasmine MAGONE

Culture: Fraternité Matin - Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Unbridled pursuit of profit, where no man has more, where the man is any object. What is this world presented last Saturday, as the "Bird Book" Palace of Culture, three Ivorian actors theater. Cecile Pango, Danon and Michael Djepp Beugré played the roles of Badibadi, wife, husband and Topitopi Opolo, a friend of the couple. For two hours, they have enabled theatergoers to discover the Exhibit "We need America," Koffi Kwahulé. It was in a staging Sidiki
Bakaba. In a scene very dilapidated, three characters have a great experience, will try to live together. During this adventure, Badibadi pregnant, "piss" of crude oil as it can disassemble and assemble his belly. Oil will be operated over a long period, until it ¬ dies and the metamorphosis of potted orchids. A new destiny is needed. To better operate the new venture with the pot of orchids, the two men and the double think they need a country of excess where the wildest dreams scrape the sky. This country is none other than America. It is a skill that particu1ière Sidiki Bakaba team has performed various roles, while braving the rain that fell on the city.

DJEZOU Casimir