
Radio Live: A New Generation
Aurélie Charon & Amélie Bonnin
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Times:
Sat 11 Oct: 7pm
Sun 12 Oct: 3pm
Tickets: Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £20)*
*all orders subject to a transaction fee of £2
Running Time: 2 hours 20 mins (no interval)
Age Recommendation: 13+
All stories will be performed in English.
This event takes place in person in our Grand Hall.
How do we invent our lives when we inherit a damaged world?
Blending spoken word, video and live music, Radio Live: A New Generation sits at the unique intersection between radio, documentary and theatre. Created by French Radio Journalist Aurélie Charon, the premise is seemingly simple: each performance, Aurélie invites two different people to the stage and interviews them. They are from Gaza, Syria, Rwanda and Ukraine.
Microphone in hand, they answer her questions: recounting their daily lives. However, as their stories unfurl, what is revealed on stage is a moving ode to resilience. Contrasting stories of conflict, war and exile intertwine and are united by an intimacy and humanity that sparks hope to be built for a future: a generation that believes in living together. A New Generation.
‘Radio Live is a Noah’s Ark. The powerful echo of the world through its inhabitants’ Sceneweb
‘A great lesson in resilience and freedom’ La Terrasse
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Biographies
Yannick Kamanzi: Rwanda
Dancer and Comedian
Yannick Kamanzi, born in 1997, belongs to the post-genocide generation. His parents took refuge in the Congo in 1994, but he lost his grandmother, who was killed during the genocide against the Tutsi. This event nourishes his reflection on memory and heritage. Trained at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he develops a physical and committed approach to the stage. In 2023, he created The Black Intore at Chaillot, the national theatre of dance. His show Generation 25 is touring in Africa, Europe and Asia, with a collaboration with the Juilliard School. He works on East African Bolero and develops Beyond the Wall, a musical comedy combining collective creation and social engagement.
Karam Al Kafri: Syria
Actor and Computer Engineer
Karam Al Kafri grew up in Yarmouk, a town in the south of Damascus where Palestinian refugees have settled since the 1950s. In 2011, at the age of 18, he graduated from high school, but it was also the year of the Syrian revolution, in which he took part from the very first months. His father decided to send him to study in Moscow, as life had become too dangerous. He spent two years there before being able to join his mother and sister in Marseille. He comes from an atheist, politically engaged family. He acted in the film Meltem by Basile Doganis, released in March 2019. He currently lives in Toulouse and works as a computer engineer in the aerospace industry. In February 2025, after the fall of the Syrian regime, he returned to Damascus with part of his family for the first time in 13 years.
Amir Hassan: Gaza
Poet and Journalist
Amir Hassan grew up in the Al Shati camp near the beach in Gaza. At age 18, he heard about French in college and decided to learn it. Four years later, he writes prize-winning poems in French. At 20, he leaves the Gaza Strip for the first time. He has a scholarship and has assisted in teaching Arabic at Henry IV High School for 3 years. In recent years, he has been teaching and publishing poems. He has been in France for 10 years, living and working in Paris as a journalist for France 24. He returned to Gaza to see his family just before the attacks of 7 October 2023. He was stuck for a month before being able to return to France. His parents, younger sister and younger brother were evacuated and are housed in Clermont-Ferrand pending the outcome of their asylum application.
Oksana Leuta: Ukraine
Comedian, Teacher and Translator
Oksana Leuta grew up in Ukraine during the period of crisis following the fall of the Soviet Union. Her parents were teachers and she decided to study French in Ukraine, and then theatre in France. In 2014, demonstrations began and the people of Kyiv occupied Maidan Square. She joined the medical team and spent weeks helping with logistics and organizing the on-site makeshift hospitals. In recent years, she was a teacher, actress and night manager at a secret techno club in Kyiv that organizes queer parties. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and the war, she has been a translator for international journalists with whom she comes close to the front line to tell the world about the war. She continues to participate in theatrical projects in Ukraine and abroad.
Credits
Concept, Image Creation and Stage Design Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin
With Amir Hassan, Oksana Leuta, Yannick Kamanzi, and Karam Al Kafri
Live Visual Creation Gala Vanson
Live Music Emma Prat
Images Thibault de Chateauvieux
Video Editing Céline Ducreux
Stage Design Pia de Compiègne
Stage Management & Lighting Design Thomas Cottereau and Vincent Dupuy
Sound engineer Benoît Laur
Encounters made during the radio documentary series and journeys of Aurélie Charon and Caroline Gillet
Produced by Mathilde Gamon – Radio Live Production
Co-produced by Festival d’Automne à Paris
Supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of the New Settings Program
With additional support from the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni (French Institute of the United Kingdom)
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Content
- References to violence
Pre-Show Information guides for this production will be made available soon.
All performances will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to, and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.
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