Histoires de femmes

Performed in the streets of NOIRES, Histoires de Femmes is a theater piece shaped by the echoes of places Roxane calls home. Rooted in the time she spent sitting beside her grandfather on the balcony of his apartment in Marcory, Abidjan, the play captures an intimate, elevated view of urban life: women crossing streets, selling goods, braiding hair, laughing, hustling.

From Le Balcon, Roxane observes and listens. The gestures, rhythms, and sounds of the street become material transformed into scenes that unfold across NOIRES. Each one conjures the presence of potomitan women - the central pillars of family and society in Guadeloupe - who inhabit public space as if it were always theirs.

From sunrise to sunset, dream to reality, she invites us into their everyday lives. Narrow, wild, warm, and sometimes perilous, the streets reveal how they shape the identities of the women who walk them. The play moves through key spaces of NOIRES: Le Balcon, the newspaper kiosk, le marché, la coiffeuse, and la lavandière - each a living stage of labor, beauty, resistance, and memory.

Histoires de Femmes was created in collaboration with Phantom Wizard, who composed the immersive soundscape and adapted the dialogues.