L'Amulette (pour construire un château, il faut un terrain où le mettre)
L’Amulette (pour construire un château, il faut un terrain où le mettre) is the second stage creation led by Yasmine Yahiatène. Here, she decides that silence is golden, that we do not need to put everything into words. She knows that, in a violent world, certain silences have protected and sometimes saved lives. It is no longer about breaking them, but about welcoming them and freely and radically transforming them into restorative spaces of fiction, poetry, and magic.
On stage, Yasmine brings together an artistic team whose trajectories intersect through shared experiences of marginality. To speak about herself, about us, Yasmine chooses to wear one or several masks and to co-create a collective project for four performers, blending her visual universe with that of others who, like her, exist on the margins. Together, they embrace the fact that their stories are like Swiss cheese: fragmented, full of holes, and incomplete. She builds her/their story within an imaginary land populated by olive trees and lavender; but also by artificial flowers, masked characters drawn with magic markers; by collected, invented, transformed sounds; by rewound, worn-out, distorted archives and films.
L’Amulette (pour construire un château, il faut un terrain où le mettre) will take the form of a tale, inspired by those of Mouloud Mammeri, of William Shakespeare, and by the “J’aime lire” magazines of our childhoods. In a civilization that privileges writing, speech, and rationality, the play seeks to rediscover the invisible and unified dimension of the magical world surrounding us, the one that oral traditions, nature-based peoples, and children have never ceased to inhabit.
