Rimini Protokoll / Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne / Les Praticables
Mali Futur Live
- 26.11 — 28.11 2026
- Performances
- portuguese premiere
- Culturgest - Auditório Rui Emílio Vilar
- 16€ (See discounts)
- ages 16+
- 1h30 min
- In French and Bambarra, with surtitles in Portuguese and English
A search for possible futures, live from Bamako.
On stage, a musician-griot with a kora and sampler accompanies a live film, shot in real time in Bamako. On screen, the actors Diarrah Dembelé and Kassim Dagnogo walk or ride motorcycles through the Malian capital, filmed by Alfousseny and Souleymane Konaté. These visionary investigators shoot a continuous live take, blending documentary and science fiction.
Packed-earth permeable soils, medicinal plants, resilient solutions and acts of solidarity coexist alongside fuel shortages, Chinese influence, and political instability.
What if the future already exists somewhere else?
The audience is taken on a fast-paced musical road trip in search of possible futures.
Credits
Written and directed by Caroline Barneaud, Kassim Dagnogo, Diarrah Dembélé, Lamine Diarra, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Alfousseny Konaté, Souleymane Konaté With Kassim Dagnogo, Diarrah Dembélé
Camera Alfousseny Konaté Live broadcast producer Souleymane Konaté Live music Chérif Soumano Sound design Stéphane Vecchione Produced by Kuma Sô Théâtre - Bamako, Rimini Apparat - Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne Coproduced by PACT Zollverein Essen Technical direction Quentin Brichet Support Goethe-Institut, Expertise France in partnership with Institut français, in the context of Connect & Create, a project funded by the European Union
Caroline Barneaud has worked in the performing arts for over 20 years, first within a theatre company, then for 10 years as a producer at the Festival d’Avignon, before joining the leadership team of Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in 2013. As director of artistic and international projects at this theatre dedicated to contemporary creation, she contributes to the conception, programming, and production of artistic projects, and collaborates with local and international artists and institutions. In this context, she has notably contributed to the creation and dramaturgy of...
Lamine Diarra is an actor, director, and head of Les Praticables in Bamako, Mali. His work combines political and civic engagement with artistic creation. He graduated in Dramatic Arts from the Institut National des Arts of Bamako (INA) and from the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris (CNSAD). In France, he has worked with Muriel Mayette, George Bigot, Mario Gonzales, and Robert Wilson. He returned to Mali in 2016 to found Les Praticables. Located in the heart of Bamako, in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, Les Praticables is an...
Stefan Kaegi creates documentary theatre productions, radio plays, nomadic concepts, and projects in urban spaces in a wide variety of constellations, often placing animals—or even the audience itself—at the centre of the work. Together with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel, Kaegi works under the label Rimini Protokoll, which received, among other awards, the Silver Lion for Theatre at the Venice Biennale in 2011. In recent years, Rimini Protokoll has, for example, staged the tetralogy State 1–4 on the phenomena of post-democracy, a simulation of a World Climate...