Asymptote • 23rd January 2025

First Lady

Sedef Ecer was born in Istanbul, and is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who works in Turkish and French. Her debut novel, Trésor national (JC Lattès, 2021; Livre de Poche, 2023), won the Prix du Festival du Chambéry and was a finalist for the Prix François Billetdoux and many others.

Bucknell University Press • 10th January 2024

Contemporary Francophone African Plays

Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case; Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing) alongside contemporary works questioning diasporic identity and cultural connections (Koffi Kwahulé’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Penda Diouf’s Tracks, Trails, and Traces…).

Lewis Center for the Arts • 25th July 2023

Seuls en Scène 2023 presents Les possédés d’Illfurth by Munstrum Théâtre

In the fall of 1864, in the small Alsatian village of Illfurth, a mysterious and spectacular evil struck two children, Joseph and Théobald. Religious authorities declared it a case of demonic possession and proceeded with an exorcism.

My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers • 18th July 2023

1789 at Sibikwa

VERY OCCASIONALLY, YOU feel that sense of privilege in the presence of an artwork that brings tears and goosebumps. From the very first roll of the snare drum with the thunder of a jembe and a dun-dun behind it, Sibikwa’s 1789 will have you transfixed. It’s immersion theatre like nothing you may have experienced before, and it will take your heart and spirit and shift it all seismically for an unspeakably fine 90 minutes.

Sibikwa Arts Centre • 1st July 2023

1789

Sibikwa Arts Centre in association with the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and Théâtre du Soleil bring you Ariane Mnouchkine's epic theatre piece "1789", directed by veteran South African directors Phyllis Klotz and Smal Ndaba, translated by Amelia Parenteau.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center • 2nd March 2023

Autophagies/Self-eaters

Bringing together theater, music, and the aromas and flavors of food, this performance reminds us of the colonial history still at play in our kitchens.

The Invisible Dog Art Center • 23rd February 2023

Autophagies — The Invisible Dog Art Center

Eva Doumbia (France/Mali/Ivory Coast): Author, director, actress, Eva Doumbia received her theater degree from the University of Aix-en-Provence, where she notably studied with Jacques Lassalle, Krystian Lupa, and André Engel. In 1999, she founded the theater company La Part du Pauvre.

NYU Skirball Center • 1st February 2023

Eva Doumbia: Autophagies (Self-Eaters)

Co-produced by NYU Skirball and The Invisible Dog, Eva Doumbia’s Autophagies (Self-Eaters) combines theater and aromas, music and flavors into a hybrid experience centered around cooking. It is also a reminder of the colonial histories still at play in today’s kitchens.

Lewis Center for the Arts • 1st September 2022

Seuls en Scène 2022 presents Moi fardeau inhérent

A woman is alone at night, waiting. A reckless flame under heavy rainfall. Her words boil over. She talks about her wound that is forever open, the secret buried for too long in her burdened body. Today the pain won’t go away. She is waiting for the man, this carrion. She is waiting for him with thunder and a sword in her hands.

Bookshop.org • 11th April 2022

New Plays from the Caribbean: Francophone Edition

New Plays from the Caribbean unveils and reveals the rich and diverse production of contemporary Francophone Caribbean theatre, allowing new dramatic voices to be heard and to travel around the world. The book is composed of six plays from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe written by playwrights, each of whom has a personal and unique history with the Caribbean.

Villa Albertine • 28th February 2022

Successful Women, Inspiring Stories

Adapted from a series of revelatory interviews by Annick Cojean, a special correspondent for Le Monde and one of France’s most widely admired journalists, we delve into the intimate lives of trailblazing women who have shaped French culture, like Christiane Taubira (politician and 2022 French presidential candidate), Gisèle Halimi (lawyer and essayist), Virginie Despentes (writer, novelist, and filmmaker), Françoise Héritier (anthropologist and ethnologist), Nina Bouraoui (novelist and songwriter), and Amélie Nothomb (novelist).

Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz • 26th February 2022

Successful women — Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz

Celebrate Women’s History Month with a powerful French play recounting the success stories of 6 women with 6 different destinies and one challenge in common: how to succeed as a woman. Written, directed, and performed by women.

Alliance Francaise de la Nouvelle Orleans • 16th February 2022

Autophagies: A culinary performance created, directed, and performed by Eva Doumbia

An excerpt of the play, Autophagies, followed by a discussion around the decolonization of art with the creator, Eva Doumbia and performers. The event is part of the a month-long festival highlighting the diversity of the French-speaking world.

Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States • 2nd October 2020

Caribbean Theater: Magali Solignat and Charlotte Boimare

The New-York based ensemble, Voyage Theater Company (VTC) presents a staged reading of The Day My Father Killed Me, a play by Magali Solignat and Charlotte Boimare from Guadeloupe. The play is directed by Lisa Rothe in a translation by Amelia Parenteau.

Voyage Theater Company • 1st October 2020

The Day My Father Killed Me

The Day My Father Killed Me by Magali Solignat and Charlotte Boimare, translated from French by Amelia Parenteau, is based on the true story of a popular singer and radio DJ in Guadeloupe who murdered his 18 year-old son.

Lewis Center for the Arts • 10th September 2020

Pistes (Tracks) — English Translation

Tracks... by Penda Diouf. Translated by Amelia Parenteau for Princeton University's Seuls en Scène 2020 French Theater Festival. This text was commissioned by the SACD as part of the “Intrepid Ones” project, on the theme of courage.

HowlRound Theatre Commons • 3rd December 2019

The Caribbean Theatre Project

The ACT / Actions Caribéennes Théâtrales project is initiated and coordinated by Stéphanie Bérard, specialist in Caribbean Theater, author of Théâtres des Antilles, in collaboration with Frank Hentschker from the Martin E. Segal Center at CUNY-The Graduate Center...

Lulu • 22nd November 2019

e-smuggler.com

E-SMUGGLER.COM by Sedef Ecer. Translated by Amelia Parenteau with support from France's Centre National du Livre. Paperback USD 8.00. ADD TO CART.

FIAF • 1st May 2019

The Heart // Réparer les vivants – French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)

Don’t miss the special 300th performance of acclaimed French actor Emmanuel Noblet‘s Molière Award-winning adaptation of Maylis de Kerangal’s international best-seller!

Lewis Center for the Arts • 21st September 2018

Seuls en Scène 2018 presents Portrait de Ludmilla en Nina Simone

Nina Simone, one of the formidable artistic figures of the civil rights movement, was born to a poor black family in Northern Carolina and had dreams of becoming a great classical pianist. Citing racism as the barrier to realizing this dream, she instead became a singer earning the moniker “High Priestess of Soul.”