The Fearless (Les Intrépides) is a group of six authors coming together in an ephemeral company. They were commissioned a piece on a particular theme and wrote a short text for the stage and worked with a composer and stage director to create this performance where they read and perform their pieces in public – make them be heard, sung, performed loud and proud. This is the affirmation of their singular writing styles; they expose themselves and escape invisibility. Marie Fourquet is the fifth author who will represent Switzerland this year in this adventure directed by Léna Breban.
“Failed negotiations is what the word “dialogue” evoked for me. When dialogue is impossible, war begins. There are consequences. People are displaced, voids appear. Soldiers leave their homes. Families flee. I always have this empty bedroom in my empty apartment. I can’t host Ukrainian refugees. Why? Because this room is waiting for my son, with whom a new dialogue must begin. Everything is connected.”