vendredi 12 septembre 2025
à 10:00
Évenement
Salle de Danse de la Maison de l’étudiant

**A show by Nicolas Raccah and Frédérique Aït-Touati.
Running time: 1h20 + debate-discussion

"Frédérique Aït-Touati and I originally wanted to devote a show to the erotic poetry of Renaissance women. But precisely where we were looking for these voices in libraries, books were waiting for us, enjoining women to be modest and discreet, forbidding them to express their desires. Others poured out a torrent of insults against them, at a time when poets were competing with each other in the free expression of their sexuality.

So we agreed to let our investigation drift along these unexpected texts, gliding through 26 centuries of women's hatred and men's anxieties.

For me, as a man, this journey between books was an explosion.
While I had a theoretical knowledge of misogyny, I had never confronted the "ensilencing" enterprise to which these books attest.
As we delved deeper into the texts, my emotions told me that the process of consciousness was finally descending from my head to my body.

We concentrated on telling the story of this trajectory.
What can enable men, whatever their age, to be impacted and concerned by the reality of abuse and violence on which our patriarchal societies have been built? How can they act, alongside women, to bring about change?"

Les Silencieuses is the story, in verse and song, of this intimate journey.
(Nicolas Raccah)

Frédérique AÏT-TOUATI
Director and researcher Frédérique Aït-Touati's work is at the crossroads of theater and the history of science. She trained as a director in England, notably at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge from 2001. In 2004, she founded the company Zone Critique.
In residence at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the Comédie de Reims, she co-created the project Gaïa Global Circus. At Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, with Bruno Latour and Philippe Quesne, she created Le théâtre des négociations-Make it work (2015).
For several years now, she has been collaborating with philosopher Bruno Latour, whom she has directed in three lecture-performances: INSIDE (2016), Moving Earths (2019) and Viral (2021). Her publications include Contes de la Lune, Essai sur la fiction et la science modernes (Gallimard, 2011) and Terra Forma, manuel de cartographies potentielles (B42, 2019). She is a CNRS research fellow, teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and directs the SPEAP School of Political Arts.

Nicolas RACCAH
After completing a Master's degree in philosophy, Nicolas Raccah trained as an actor at ENSATT (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre). He graduated in 1999. His theater credits include work with Hans Peter Cloos (le Caïman), Brigitte Jaques (Le Voyage de Benjamin), Lisa Wurmser (Marie des Grenouilles), Gerold Schuman (Bérénice, L'Eveil du Printemps), Jean-Vincent Brisa (L'Etourdi, Phèdre, Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard), Thomas Gaubiac (la Maison du Bout du...), Michel Dieuaide (Les Sirènes préfèrent la Mer), François Roy (Roméo et Juliette), Alice Safran (Créanciers)...
In 2009, he created Le Petit Traité du Plaisir, setting Oubli à la Mort, based on 16th-century erotic poems virtually unknown to the general public. The show is still touring, after over 300 performances.
With Les Silencieuses (Récit d'un Voyage), he tried his hand at writing for the first time.
He works regularly for France Culture and France Inter, giving readings and radio dramas.