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 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.

For October's Rendez-vous de l'Alliance, we're excited to welcome French-Moroccan Activist for Youth and Peace, Latifa Ibn Ziaten. This event will consist of a 50-minute documentary screening in French with English subtitles followed by a discussion in English and French with Mrs. Ibn Ziaten, interpreted by Amelia Parenteau.

There’s a new author in the literary world of the Laurentians. Nicolas Picq self-published his first five novels, which are stories nicely woven with characters from our own region. His most recent work, was recorded as an audio book as well as being translated into English.

Guidés par une voix dans le téléphone qui leur donne instructions, invitations et directives physiques, deux personnes qui ne se sont jamais rencontrées se découvrent, s’imaginent et se fantasment, en construisant une série de performances les unes pour les autres.

WITH: Caroline Guiela Nguyen, Theater Director and Founder of the company Les Hommes Approximatifs, and Kate Loewald, Founding Producer of The Play Company in New York. The discussion will be in English with the assistance of the translator Amelia Parenteau.

August-September 2019

Campbell’s collection presents four plays that constitute a sliver of the breadth of contemporary French theater. As Clare Finburgh writes in her judicious introduction, “[T]oday’s [French] theatrical landscape tends to be characterized...

This past Saturday I attended a conversation at the Albertine Bookstore on the Upper East Side, organized as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. The panel was moderated by...

AMELIA: How did you originally discover Aubert’s work, and what drew you to it? KIMBERLY:  I was on the play selection committee for a French/American new play festival, “Des Voix,” in San Francisco in 2012.

I met Eva Doumbia in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 2019 (as documented in my essay “New to New Orleans”), and over a glass of wine, she shared plans for her upcoming creation, , which would tell the story of various foods’ interconnected histories of dominance and oppression spanning back to colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.

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.

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.

I first met Eva Doumbia while she was on a research trip to New Orleans. I was enthralled by her explanation of the show she was creating which used elements of documentary theater and religious ceremony to address food history, its connections to the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. I was honored when she asked me to translate the show from French into English and produce its United States tour.

Autophagies (Self-Eaters) is a show halfway between theatre and group tasting session. New Orleans native Karen-Kaia Livers plays the role of master of ceremonies, inviting the audience to a “documentary eucharist,” orchestrated by the chef Alexandre Bella Ola. Over an hour and a half, the preparation of mafé is accompanied by stories about its ingredients.

Autophagies (Self-Eaters) is a show halfway between theatre and group tasting session. New Orleans native Karen-Kaia Livers plays the role of a master of ceremonies who invites the audience to a "documentary eucharist," orchestrated by the chef Alexandre Bella Ola. Over an hour and a half, the preparation of mafé is accompanied by stories about its ingredients.

Co-produced by NYU Skirball and The Invisible Dog, Eva Doumbia’s Autophagies (Self-Eaters) combines theater and aromas, music and flavors into a hybrid experience centered around cooking. It is also a reminder of the colonial histories still at play in today’s kitchens.

From Feb. 23 to 26, Alexandre Bella Ola, a Paris-based chef and cookbook author originally from Cameroon, will join a cast performing “Autophagies” by Eva Doumbia, a multimedia theater piece. The 90-minute production, presented at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the N.Y.U. Skirball Center, covers food, politics, culture and family.

An excerpt of the play, Autophagies, followed by a discussion around the decolonization of art with the creator, Eva Doumbia and performers. The event is part of the a month-long festival highlighting the diversity of the French-speaking world.

The French version of the play "Autophagies" written and directed by Eva Doumbia initially premiered in French at the Festival d’Avignon in July 2021 to an audience thrilled by the mélange of “traditional disciplines joined by another, widely popular one: Cooking.

Tracks... by Penda Diouf. Translated by Amelia Parenteau for Princeton University's Seuls en Scène 2020 French Theater Festival. This text was commissioned by the SACD as part of the “Intrepid Ones” project, on the theme of courage.

New Plays from the Caribbean unveils and reveals the rich and diverse production of contemporary Francophone Caribbean theatre, allowing new dramatic voices to be heard and to travel around the world. The book is composed of six plays from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe written by playwrights, each of whom has a personal and unique history with the Caribbean.

Conversation with the two authors Charlotte Boimare and Magali Solignat, co-writers of the play, "The Day My Father Killed Me." The conversation (condensed and edited) has been conducted by translator and theater maker Amelia Parenteau on September 17, 2020, as part of the virtual staged reading of their play on October 22 by Voyage Theater Company.

The New-York based ensemble, Voyage Theater Company (VTC) presents a staged reading of The Day My Father Killed Me, a play by Magali Solignat and Charlotte Boimare from Guadeloupe. The play is directed by Lisa Rothe in a translation by Amelia Parenteau.

The Day My Father Killed Me by Magali Solignat and Charlotte Boimare, translated from French by Amelia Parenteau, is based on the true story of a popular singer and radio DJ in Guadeloupe who murdered his 18 year-old son.

Any translator worth their salt can tell you the real work of translation is not the literal (painstaking!) rendering of one language into another, but instead the necessary accompanying cultural translation that carries the meaning of the work.

The ACT / Actions Caribéennes Théâtrales project is initiated and coordinated by Stéphanie Bérard, specialist in Caribbean Theater, author of Théâtres des Antilles, in collaboration with Frank Hentschker from the Martin E. Segal Center at CUNY-The Graduate Center...

E-SMUGGLER.COM by Sedef Ecer. Translated by Amelia Parenteau with support from France's Centre National du Livre. Paperback USD 8.00. ADD TO CART.

Voyage Theater Company/PARTS UNKNOWN Play Reading Series will present a staged reading of acclaimed Turkish playwright Sedef Ecer's e-smuggler.com, in a new English-language translation by Amelia Parenteau, directed by Lisa Rothe, at the 53rd Street New York Public Library...

In a world of chaos, where International alliances have collapsed, everyone has become a refugee fleeing conflict and famine. As border crossing becomes increasingly dangerous, a lucrative commodity emerges in the digital marketplace.

LIGHTS UP Welcome to Pennsylvania’s death row. Welcome to my six-by-ten-foot cell. Welcome to the hive of shadows where everyday seventy-eight bumblebees stuck in their cells sip the venom and hatred of the State.

February 23 7:00 PM - From Théâtre de l’Albatros in Avignon, France, comes a play that imagines a series of meetings between Coretta Scott King and radio journalist/activist Mumia Abu-Jamal....

I first connected with Alain when I was living in Paris in the winter of 2014, working at my old study abroad program, and I leapt at the chance to...