In the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes, which has been transformed into a gymnasium, the director Julie Deliquet follows homeless people, workers, immigrants or even single mothers in its adaptation for the theater of the documentary Welfare of Frederick Wiseman. Fifteen everyday heroes intersect, inviting the viewer to go beyond the fourth wall to follow the characters in a social assistance center that comes to life in the middle of the Papal Court.
“Welfare” by Frederick Wiseman, directed by Julie Deliquet in the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes, from July 5 to 14, 2023 in Avignon. – ©Christophe Raynaud de Lage
Frederick Wiseman is an American documentary filmmaker, he received an honorary Oscar and a Golden Lion for his entire career. In his creations, the director casts his gaze on American local life and democracy by penetrating symbolic places. Filmed in 1973, Welfare is the ninth film by the filmmaker. In this production, he unfolds a day in December 1973 in New York, from the opening to the closing of an emergency service of a social assistance center installed in a school gymnasium. The homeless, stateless, destitute waiting their turn, showing a human comedy, a world of struggle and resistance carried with strength and courage by the men and women who follow one another.
Julie Deliquet is a director and director of the Gérard Philippe Theater since 2020, national drama center of Saint-Denis. After studying cinema and training at the Montpellier Conservatory and the Studio Theater School in Asnières, Julie Deliquet continued her training at the Jacques Lecoq International Theater School, and created the In Vitro collective in 2009. Subsequently, she directed several plays at the Odéon, the Comédie-Française and the TGP de Saint-Denis, including Eight hours don’t make a day by Rainer Werner Fassbinder created in 2021 and Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, Armande and the others… with the troupe of the Comédie-Française, after Molière.
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The play is played from July 5 to July 14 in Avignon, at 10 p.m. in the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes.
Broadcast on France 5 on July 7, the show will be available on Culturebox from July 23. After this Avignon season, the show will be played in Saint-Denis from September 27 to October 15.
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