Kambodżańskie Dziady
Cambodian Forefathers

Summary/Abstract: An insightful and multifaceted analysis of the play L’Histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, roi de Cambodge, based on a text by Helene Cixous and directed by Georges Bigot and Delphine Cottu (Festival Sens Interdits – Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon, premiere: November 2011). The performance is a reconstruction of an Ariane Mnouchkine play of 1985. Because the reconstructed first part of the script concerns the history of Cambodia under the rule Norodom Sihanouk, a key tactic of the creators of the remake was to cast Cambodian actors in the play. This facilitated “‘transcribing’ the 1985 play into a different cultural code and telling the history of the ravaged country from a new perspective,” and as such, revealing the “expansiveness of Western culture, which has produced its own myth of Cambodia.”

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