Hebbel am Ufer • 16th October 2026

La Gouineraie / Der Lesbengarten

Text, Regie: Sandra Calderan, Rébecca Chaillon /...

Dublin Theatre Festival • 8th October 2026

La Parabole du Seum [Parable of The Sour]

International Voices Project • 6th October 2026

First Lady | Turkey — International Voices Project

Playwright - Sedef Ecer was born in Istanbul, and is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who works in Turkish and French. Her novel, Trésor national (JC Lattès, 2021; Livre de Poche, 2023), won the Prix du Festival du Chambéry and was a finalist for the Prix François Billetdoux and many others. Her plays have been produced and received staged and radio readings at international festivals, in public and private theaters in France, and abroad, as well as in public spaces, such as cafés, libra...

(c) Pauline Le Goff

Lewis Center for the Arts • 25th September 2026

Seuls en Scène 2026 presents Génération Mitterand

Festival d'Avignon • 4th July 2026

Parabole du Seum

Segal Center CUNY • 18th May 2026

World Voices: PENDA DIOUF (Senegal / France) | Segal Center CUNY

Join us for an evening with Penda Diouf--one France's most significant emerging playwrights for the reading of JULIUS, a work in progress about the queer African-American composer Julius Eastman. A new translation by Amelia Parenteau, directed by Keith Josef Atkins, THE NEW BLACKFEST. With New York actors YVETTE GANIER, XAVIER SCOTT EVANS, and DEVIN KESSLER.Followed by a talk with Penda Diouf, Keith Josef Atkins, Frank Hentschker and a reception.Penda Diouf (Senegal/France), is a French playwri...

Wiener Festwochen • 14th May 2026

Parable of the Sour - Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen)

Production Compagnie Dans le ventre Coproduction Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, Théâtre Public de Montreuil – Centre dramatique national, Théatre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Les Nuits de Fourvière – Lyon International Metropolis Festival, Comédie de Genève, Dublin Theatre Festival, tnba – Théâtre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre, La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille, Le Carreau du Temple (Paris), Le Maillon Théâtre de Strasbou...

American Society for Theatre Research • 10th November 2025

ASTR Translation Prize - Honorable Mention

Moving in November • 11th October 2025

La Gouineraie – Moving in November – Liikkeellä marraskuussa

Rébecca Chaillon, a dyke from the city, and Sandra Calderan, a country lesbian, are a couple on- and off-stage. In this joyful, intimate performance, they attempt to deconstruct, dissect, and analyse what it means to ‘form a family’. La Gouineraie invites the audience into their home-in-the-making. While Sandra makes frantic attempts to build as many little homes as possible from scrap wood, city girl Rébecca comes to give the countryside a chance. Surrounded by building materials, wrestling w...

PICT • 1st September 2025

First Lady - Past Productions — PICT Classic Theatre

2025First Lady by Sedef Ecer, translation by Amelia Parenteau- Directed by Adil MansoorMiss Julie by August Strindberg, Adapation by Amy Ng- Directed by Elizabeth Elias Huffman2024Andy Warhol’s Tomato: Vince Melocchi- Directed by Elizabeth Elias HuffmanWhat do I Wear? 2500 Years of Fashion in Theatre- Fundraiser- Directed and Curated by Elizabeth Elias HuffmanBards from the Burgh Reading Series II: The Wake by Tammy Ryan- Directed by Chris ClavelliThree Blind Mice by Darren Friedman-Directed by...

Kaaitheater • 1st September 2025

La Gouineraie - | Kaaitheater

Rébecca Chaillon, a dyke from the city, and Sandra Calderan, a country lesbian, are a couple on- and off-stage. In this joyful, intimate performance, they attempt to deconstruct, dissect, and analyse what it means to ‘form a family’.  Together, they invite the audience into their home-in-the-making. While Sandra makes frantic attempts to build as many little homes as possible from scrap wood, city girl Rébecca comes to give the countryside a chance. Surrounded by building materials, wrestling wi...

Word Works Cafe Muse • 5th August 2025

The Word Works & DC ALT - Poetry in Translation

Contemporary Francophone African Plays An Anthology: Translated by Judith G. Miller, Amelia Parenteau, Ninon Vessier and Subha Xavier https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/contemporary-francophone-african-plays/9781684485116/ For more about Amelia Parenteau: https://www.amelia-parenteau.com/

Wiener Festwochen • 4th June 2025

La Gouineraie (The Dyke Orchard)

Sandra Calderan and Rébecca Chaillon, self-proclaimed 'countryside lesbians', will turn the stage into a laboratory of chaos and present a model for a utopian world in this joyful performance. Can feminism and 'gouinerie' (lesbianism) save lives? Rébecca Chaillon and Sandra Calderan, self-proclaimed 'countryside lesbians' and a couple off stage, too, playfully deconstruct the myth of the traditional, heterosexual and catholic family model with its icons of Daddy and Mummy in this joyful performa...

Asymptote • 23rd January 2025

First Lady

Sedef Ecer was born in Istanbul, and is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who works in Turkish and French. Her debut novel, Trésor national (JC Lattès, 2021; Livre de Poche, 2023), won the Prix du Festival du Chambéry and was a finalist for the Prix François Billetdoux and many others.

Bucknell University Press • 10th January 2024

Contemporary Francophone African Plays

Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case; Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing) alongside contemporary works questioning diasporic identity and cultural connections (Koffi Kwahulé’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Penda Diouf’s Tracks, Trails, and Traces…).

Lewis Center for the Arts • 25th July 2023

Seuls en Scène 2023 presents Les possédés d’Illfurth by Munstrum Théâtre

In the fall of 1864, in the small Alsatian village of Illfurth, a mysterious and spectacular evil struck two children, Joseph and Théobald. Religious authorities declared it a case of demonic possession and proceeded with an exorcism.

My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers • 18th July 2023

1789 at Sibikwa

VERY OCCASIONALLY, YOU feel that sense of privilege in the presence of an artwork that brings tears and goosebumps. From the very first roll of the snare drum with the thunder of a jembe and a dun-dun behind it, Sibikwa’s 1789 will have you transfixed. It’s immersion theatre like nothing you may have experienced before, and it will take your heart and spirit and shift it all seismically for an unspeakably fine 90 minutes.

Sibikwa Arts Centre • 1st July 2023

1789

Sibikwa Arts Centre in association with the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and Théâtre du Soleil bring you Ariane Mnouchkine's epic theatre piece "1789", directed by veteran South African directors Phyllis Klotz and Smal Ndaba, translated by Amelia Parenteau.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center • 2nd March 2023

Autophagies/Self-eaters

Bringing together theater, music, and the aromas and flavors of food, this performance reminds us of the colonial history still at play in our kitchens.

The Invisible Dog Art Center • 23rd February 2023

Autophagies — The Invisible Dog Art Center

Eva Doumbia (France/Mali/Ivory Coast): Author, director, actress, Eva Doumbia received her theater degree from the University of Aix-en-Provence, where she notably studied with Jacques Lassalle, Krystian Lupa, and André Engel. In 1999, she founded the theater company La Part du Pauvre.