The Pelicot Trial Digital Program
Research, text and direction: Milo Rau and Servane Dècle
Research and direction: Milo Rau
Project dramaturgy: Nastasia Griese
Executive production: Frank Hentschker
Casting direction: Nicole Ansari-Cox
SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanks to Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers Me Camus and Me Babonneau, the journalists Adèle Bossard (Ici Vaucluse), Jean-Philippe Deniau (Radio France), Britta Sandberg (Der Spiegel), Valérie Manteau, Marion Dubreuil, Lenaïg Bredoux (Mediapart), Le Monde, La Déferlante, 604.cafe, Tal Madesta, Charles Rojzman, Helene Devynck, psychiatric expert Laurent Layet, prosecutor Jean-François Mayet, lawyer Me Kabore, Caroline Darian, JC Lattes, feminists Justine Le Noac’h and Nellie (NousToustes 84), Jackie Wang, Neige Sinno, Lisa Giffon, la Ciivise, Morgan N. Lucas, Lola Lafon, Nicolas Hénin, Manon Garcia, Mathilde Levesque, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, researchers Solenne Jouanneau, Aïcha Limbada, Guillaume Carnino, Baptiste Morizot, Camille Bègue, and Centre Norbert Elias (CNRS- Aix-Marseille Université – Avignon Université) : Dorothée Dussy, Lucille Florenza, Stéphanie Fonvielle, Riwanon Gouez, Mélanie Gourarier, Fatma Hamdoun, Laurence Hérault, Corentin Legras, Céline Lesourd, Perrine Lachenal, Michèle Salord-Lopez, Irène Seriau, Raphaël Perrin.
a project by Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna
in collaboration with Festival d’Avignon
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Servane Dècle is a performing arts graduate from Conservatoire de Nantes and a former civil engineer from UTC. She is involved in diverse social movements in France and has been living in a commune for seven years. She has been working for several years as a dramaturge with Milo Rau, Simon Roth and Cie Supernovae. Dècle also works as an actress and writes her own plays, such as a monologue to be directed by Clara Hédouin.
Milo Rau, born 1977 in Bern, is the artistic director of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna. The director and author has published over 100 plays, films, books and actions. His theatre productions have been shown at all major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d‘Avignon, the Venice Biennale, the Vienna Festival and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and have been touring in over 30 countries worldwide. From 2018 to 2024 Milo Rau was artistic director of NTGent.
JUDSON CHURCH
Judson Memorial Church seeks to be a just, diverse, vibrant, and worshipping spiritual community through the pursuit of social justice, creative expression, and sacred exploration of its own Protestant church roots and the wisdom of other traditions.
NYU SKIRBALL
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SUPPORT
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Culture Ireland; The Shubert Foundation; Collins Building Services; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut New York with support from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; New England Foundation for the Arts; Harkness Foundation for Dance; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
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