One's Own Room Inside Kabul is an invitation to enter the living room of a young Afghan woman. There, after removing shoes and taking a seat among pillows and traditional dishes, the audience meets Raha, isolated from the outside world after the Taliban's rise to power. Raha shares her thoughts, desires, and fears. The audience finds themselves trapped with her as they listen to the tale of her everyday life. Conceived by Kubra Khademi and Caroline Gillet, with a video creation produced by an anonymous team in Kabul, this visual and aural experience in a confined space evokes the fragility of women's daily lives in Afghanistan and serves as a reminder of how quickly basic freedoms can be lost-even outside Afghanistan. An immersive project that transforms personal testimony into a powerful call for collective reflection.
Saturday 11 October
Teatrostudio
25 CHF
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text and voice
Raha
direction
Caroline Gillet, Kubra Khademi
sound narration
Caroline Gillet and Frédéric Changenet with Anna Buy
scenography and visual installation
Kubra Khademi
video
anonymous team of videomakers and editors from Kabul
lighting
Juliette Delfosse
sound mixing
Frédéric Changenet and Pierre Langlet
sounds from Kabul
Benazer
technical direction
François Lewyllie
French voice
Sofia Lesaffre
production manager
Maria-Carmela Mini
production
Latitudes Prod (Lille)
co-production
Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival d'Automne à Paris, Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels), euro-scene Festival Leipzig, Théâtre Molière Scène Nationale Archipel de Thau, Radio France
support
DRAC Hauts-de-France and Open Society Foundations via the Afghanistan Cultural Fund, and CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée
support for residencies
Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts, La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Maison Folie Wazemmes - City of Lille, Bazaar St So
adaptation
the immersive experience is an adaptation of the original FRANCE INTER podcasts Inside Kabul and Outside Kabul by Caroline Gillet.
special thanks
Matthieu Beauval, Thierry Cabrera, Anne Fontanesi, Juliette Prouteau, Behishta Rahmaty, Florence Sarfati, and to the teams of France Inter, Beauvaisis School of Art, the ceramists Amandine Brunet and Valérie Dubuisson
