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Reading

The Pelicot Trial

A scenic Oratorio

Milo Rau & Servane Dècle

18 June
Wed 
9pm
German
9pm–4am

The Pelicot trial is undoubtedly the most publicised and discussed, and also the most symbolic, of our time. As in a sociological study, it shows that in a perfectly normal Western European city – the small town of Mazan in the south of France, close to Avignon – perfectly ordinary men from all social classes and age groups are capable of perhaps the most extreme crime: the repeated rape of an unconscious woman. "Shame must change sides": Gisèle Pelicot's decision to make her trial public made her a symbolic figure of a possible turning point. With a staged reading of statements and examinations from the trial, interviews and newspaper commentaries, pleas, expert opinions and online chats, the reading night THE PELICOT TRIAL pays tribute to Gisèle Pelicot. In collaboration with the Pelicot family's lawyers, the court, psychological experts, court reporters, witnesses and feminist groups, dramaturge Servane Dècle and director Milo Rau paint a picture of an entire era.

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Photo credits: AFP
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The performance addresses sexual violence.

Admission free

Limited number of spots – first come, first served

Credits
Artistic team

Research, dramaturgy and direction Milo Rau & Servane Dècle Production dramaturgy Nastasia Griese Dramaturgy assistance Manon Chauveau

Read by

Waltraud Barton, Sabine Bouyssy, Zeynep Buyraç, Nadine Abena Cobbina, Maja Karolina Franke, Cosmina Fusu, Manuel Harder, Dorothee Hartinger, Mavie Hörbiger, Oskar Huber, Karin Yoko Jochum, Alla Kiperman, Lola Klamroth, Sebastian Klein, Wilfried Kovárnik, Stefan Kutzenberger, Sophie Lenglinger, Rebecca Lindauer, Kaspar Maier, Marc Pierre, Stephan Rehm, Safira Robens, Roberto Romeo, Claus Nicolai Six, Helge Stradner, Laetitia Toursarkissian, Birgit Unterweger, Marcos Valdes Fernandez, Kay Voges, Lili Winderlich

Special thanks to

Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers Stéphane Babonneau and Antoine Camus, the journalist: Adèle Bossard (ici Vaucluse), Jean-Philippe Deniau (Radio France), Valérie Manteau, Britta Sandberg (Der Spiegel) and Henri Seckel (Le Monde), the academics Riwanon Gouez, Perrine Lachenal, Céline Lesourd (Centre Norbert Elias), and Solenne Jouanneau, the feminist activist Justine Le Noac'h, expert Laurent Layet, prosecutor Jean-François Mayet

Production

A project of the Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna in cooperation with the Festival d'Avignon

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