Rumba

How many stars are there in the sky? There are so many that we cannot count them. It's almost Christmas. In a supermarket parking lot, in the middle of the trash cans, two men, the narrator and Pierre, his accordionist sidekick, are preparing a small show. They are waiting for the pilgrim buses that, perhaps, will never come. Around them, the silhouettes of the invisibilized, those whom we no longer look at. In the background, an unexpected ghost: Francis of Assisi. What if he had been born in 1982? Who are the outcasts of the world he would have met on his path? Après Laïka and Pueblo, Rumba is the final installment of Ascanio Celestini's "trilogy of poor devils," where satire, tenderness, and raw poetry mingle. Carried by the live music of Philippe Orivel, David Murgia, co-founder of Raoul Collectif, makes a burning word resonate. Avec Rumba they conclude their exploration of the peripheries with an ode to the memory of the forgotten of our society. Read > With "Rumba", David Murgia gives a face and a voice to people living in extreme poverty, rtbf Read and listen > "Humanity is seen in vulnerability": David Murgia delivers the behind-the-scenes of his Trilogy of poor devils, Kiosk, rtbf "Rumba" by the Murgia-Celestini tandem closes its formidable "trilogy of the disinherited" with beauty and humor. Guy Duplat, La Libre Avec Texte and directed by Ascanio Celestini Avec David Murgia Musique Philippe Orivel Création musical Gianluca Casadei Traduction and adaptation Patrick Bebi and David Murgia Direction technical and general stage management Philippe Kariger Voix Giulia Murgia Piret Production Kukaracha ASBL Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Brussels, Théâtre de Liège, Théâtre de Namur, Mars (Mons performing arts), Cultural Center of Verviers, Théâtre des Célestins - Lyon, Théâtre Joliette, Stage conventioned art and creation for the diversity of contemporary writings - Pôle International de Production and Diffusion - Marseille, La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod Soutien Wirikuta asbl, the house of cultures of Saint-Gilles, Fédération Wallonie-Brussels - Direction du Théâtre, Wallonia-Bruxelles International, taxshelter.be, ING and tax shelter of the Belgian federal government