RITU 40
40th International Meeting of University Theatre
8th to 11th November 2023
Every year since 1983, the TURLg has been organizing the RITU and welcoming troupes from all over the world to perform in Liège. This year, troupes from Peru, Demcratic Republic of Congo, Estonia, Marocco, Italy and Belgium will honour us with their presence also with an international conference co-organized with the CERTES (U.R. TRAVERSES) from November 8 to 10.
Programme
TURLg stage // Quai Roosevelt 1b – 4000 Liège
Liège Youth Hostel // Rue Georges Simenon 2 – 4020 Liège
SOCIETY IN THE MIRROR OF THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT
From 08 to 10 November
Conference organised by CERTES (Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Théâtre dans l’Espace Social – U.R. Traverses-) and the Théâtre Universitaire Royal de Liège (TURLg) as part of the 40th International Meeting of University Theatre.
Conceived with the support of Arsenic 2, the Centre Belge FWB de l’Institut International du Théâtre and the Centre de Théâtre-Action, this colloquium is an opportunity to reflect on theatre-related training, animation and social action practices. What kind of society do these practices capture? How do they refract them? And under what conditions?
VOICES FROM THE ASH TOWN
Weddnesday 8th November | 5 p.m. | TURLg
Zerotheatre – Tartu University
Tartu, Estonia
(45’ / English)
The performance “Voices from the Ash Town” is a musical, visual and ritual vision about the war in Ukraine. The show is based on real stories of real people in Ukraine cities – in Mariupol, Kherson, Kiew etc. The show is about people who is caught between the cogs of the Russian started war in Ukraina.
Based on documentary stories
Directed by Irakli Gogia (Georgia) and Kalev Kudu
MIENTRAS TENGAMOS VOZ
Thursday 9th November | 8 p.m. | TURLg
Teatro PUCP – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Lima, Peru
(50’ / Spanish)
“As long as we have a voice” is a collective creation that reviews from different points of view what it means to be a woman in our country. What is it like to be a woman in a Latin American country? To create this piece, we started with the personal experience of each actress and their testimonies dialogued with different performing languages such as physical, choral, documentary and testimonial theater. The piece was built from practice as research and includes a monologue from the unpublished play “To live like this is to die” by the playwright Alejandra Vieira, which served as the starting point for the creation.
Collective creation written by Alejandra Vieira
Directed by par Katiuska Valencia and Alejandra Vieira
STARLIGHT
Friday 10th November | 8 p.m. | Liège Youth Hostel
Théâtre Universitaire Royal de Liège
Liège, Belgium
(70’ / French)
Starlight, is first of all an apple tree with a bench in a garden, in a retirement home. A familiar image, a meeting point, symbole of exchanges and enrichments. There, a bunch of characters linked to the retirement home speak and see each other : Rosa, a regular and her great-daughter Stella, a nurse, an animator, a resident, a volonteer, …. Each of them has their own temper, lives and problems.
Theatrical project carried out at the request of the Psychology of Senescence and Aging unit at ULiège as part of a large-scale Interreg Euregio Meuse-Rhin project and intended to raise awareness among the general public of the loneliness of the elderly , this show premiered in June 2023.
Written by Luc Stevens
Directed by Alain Chevalier
INGANNI
Saturday 11th November | 3 p.m. | TURLg
Teatro Universitario Aenigma (Associaizone Culturale Cittadina Univrsitaria AENIGMA APS) – Università degli Studi di Urbino « Carlo Bo »
Urbino, Italy
(45’ / Italian and dialects)
The Commedia dell’arte is a fundamental expression of almost all theatrical cultures in representing emotions, feelings, fortunes and miseries of human beings.
Our research starts from the possibility of reinventing the stories and plots of traditional comedy, in the light of today’s complex society, in particular through the exploration of farce and popular fairy tales. A treasure is hidden in the garden of the rich doctor’s house. He ignores it, but a large group of characters around him will do anything to get hold of it.
Text by Francesco Gigliotti
Inspired by an ancient gathering of theatrical canovaccios
Directed by Francesco Gigliotti
VAKKABO – CHANGACHANGA (PATCHWORK)
CANCELED
École de Théâtre de Lubumbashi – Université de Lubumbashi
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
(50’ / French)
THEATRE-FORUM ON HOUSING
Saturday 11th November | 8 p.m. | TURLg
Les Polymorphistes ASBL (Bruxelles)
(French/English))
What tricks can you use to warm up your freezing apartment? Or better yet, what can we do when faced with a landlord’s abuse of power? Is it possible to take collective action against this mater? We invite you to join us in a forum-theater, an interactive play in which you can take to the stage and act on housing issues.
Theatre-forum