LA FABRIQUE DU COMMUN

We will be hearing from a lawyer. After studying law and specialising in the philosophy of law, Véronique Dockx spent fifteen years defending exiles at the Brussels Bar. Since 2018, following a severe burnout (in her own words), she has been exploring new horizons. As a transdisciplinary artist, she sees her practice as an experimental laboratory, seeking hybrid forms and formats that allow for a different approach to law and justice, through philosophy and the performing arts. At the heart of the project lies an observation: the confiscation of law and justice, and a societal urgency to reclaim what has been taken from us, to defend our inalienable rights with justice as an ideal, as a way of building society. Through a sensitive, collective stage performance, we equip ourselves to reclaim our power together. Through an immersive setup, the stage becomes a place of justice. Participants are invited to experience this. To reflect together and rebuild collectively. The central theme of the performance is collapse. Both the collapse of the physical structure and that of the judicial institution. Collapse as the consequence of a senseless and unsustainable policy. But also, and above all, as an opportunity for change, for rebuilding. What kind of justice do we want? What place and role should it have within society? And how can we bring it about? All around us, everything points to an imminent collapse. Unless it has already happened? What if the collapse were a chance to rethink and restructure everything?

Conception, écriture et jeux : Véronique Dockx
Création multimédia, régie son et lumière : Sandrine Nicaise
Aide à l’écriture : Morgane Choupay
Dramaturgie : Yvain Juillard
Assistante à la mise en scène : Siham Berrada
Coproduction et accompagnement à la création : Le boson, Le Corridor, La Fabrique de Théâtre, Les faiseurs de réalités, Les Halles de Schaerbeek
et avec le soutien de La fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Soutien de : Ad Lib, La Factory L’Association Syndicale des Magistrats et La Ligue des Droits Humains