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Phia Ménard

Phia Ménard

French performer and director

Sep 23, 2026

1:57
Could you tell us about this play and its intentions, the form of the play, its genesis?
2:05
So, first of all, the full title is Nocturne and in parentheses, Parade.
2:12
It has this importance, it is that Nocturne, in the genesis, arrives finally in a somewhat particular question, it is that With my company in France, we are in a region where a political decision taken by the extreme right has cut the subsidies that were attributed to us.
2:42
We have finally been in a region of France that is repressed for its cultural environment, its cultural dynamics.
2:56
has been, all at once, victim of an ideological, political decision of the far-right.
3:08
It's fragile, even in a society that has a Ministry of Culture and that sells So Nocturne comes as a starting point with this idea.
3:18
And the idea that Nocturne is also, in the night, the moment when I say you have to go through the night, that the fascists never win wars.

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