The audience’s first step cannot reach a secure ground, a ground you find in a gallery space. On the contrary, to our surprise, the ground was unstable, covered by small stones you can find in front of houses in the UK. A small audience penetrates in this dark space, where a single light illuminates the performer sitting on the stones. A half circle of cushions invite the audience to sit down at the same level as the performer and very close to her. At the ends of the cushions monitors transmitted at the same time, different profiles of the performer and recorded the audience’s reactions. It also allowed the audience to be distanced from the performer and to avoid looking at her when it was too uncomfortable.
Then, it started, this pamphlet against those bitches who did not sign for preventing the stoning of this bitch, Mary, sitting in front of us. The performer questions through this angry text, reflecting her own revolt, female rights in other countries and how western society and the female community within our society blindfold themselves to the situation in Africa where women are stoned and still suffer from genital cutting. Laure Pépin choses this text as it transposes the debate of this African crisis into our occidental society by putting black voices in white bodies. debbie tucker green's text illustrates and responds to Tony Blair’s discourse during the World Economic Forum, in January 2005 : “If what was happening in Africa today was happening in any other part of the world, there would be such a scandal and clamour that governments would be falling over themselves to act in response”.
