Inspired by Dogville, the 2003 film by Lars Von Trier, the play by Christiane Jatahy stages a new collectivity with the aim of studying how so-called “others” are accepted today, in the Europe of 2022. Entre chien et loup (an award winner at the Festival d’Avignone in 2021) is the first part in the “Trilogy of Horror” and tells the story of the young Graça who, fleeing from a Latin-American dictatorship, finds refuge in a small community of “good people”. However, her arrival soon polarises feelings towards her, unleashing jealousy and frustration that draw the citizens into an unhealthy mechanism. The action on stage thus becomes a veritable human laboratory, an imaginary place that draws terribly close to reality. As with Lars Von Trier, we witness psychological torture, blackmail, paranoid diffidence and even physical violence. By sectioning the sources of social violence, the director leads us to question whether we are still in time to stop and reflect, and to change

Duration: 105'

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