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The Sound of Cracking Bones
in FORSYTH, Louise H.,Anthology of Québec Women’s Plays in English Translation, Volume III (1997-2009), Playwrights Canada Press,Toronto: 2010)
Original
Résumé Elikia is a child, among so many others, who has seen her life overturned from one day to the next in a chaotic, lawless civil war. The girl, kidnapped from her family, becomes a child soldier. She is a victim, but she is also an executioner in an untenable situation that blurs the most elementary laws of ethics. How can she grow up and remain human when the reference points disappear beneath a hopeless daily brutality? It is little Joseph, the youngest child to come to the rebels' camp, who gives her the courage to break the chain of violence into which she has been pulled. Extrait « ANGELINA : I want my memories to be useful … | I want to say to those who wage war: | if a gun can kill the body of the one who is afraid, | it also kills the soul of the one who shoots. » Revue de presse « . . . the text by Quebec playwright Suzanne Lebeau, which relates the fate of two child soldiers, is an ode to rediscovered dignity and to responsibility. » Jean-Luc Bertet, leJDD.fr « Full of emotion and finesse, Le bruit des os qui craquent is a play that absolutely must be seen. Everyone should see it, because it lifts the veil on a reality that we tend to minimize and that is much more generalized than we believe. » Denise Martel, Journal de Québec « Suzanne Lebeau's Le bruit des os qui craquent is a serious, strong show, with an almost holy intensity, due to both the essential subject that the play addresses – the life of child soldiers – and the fervour that the entire team puts into denouncing this dark reality. The author, through a counterpoint structure and a clear, limpid text, imbued with modesty and profound humanity, opposes compassion and indignation to the brutality and barbarism into which these children are plunged. With his spare, evocative direction, Gervais Gaudreault suggests the unspeakable horror. The actors, completely committed, play with restraint that which would make us want to scream. The shock of emotion and revolt could not be more explosive. To be seen. » Marie Laliberté, Voir Québec |
