On Monday March 25, 2024, Radio France Internationale (RFI) launched the call for submissions for the 11th edition of the RFI Théâtre Prize. “For ten years, the RFI Théâtre Prize has enabled around ten authors to meet a larger audience, in their respective countries, but also internationally. Translations, readings, residencies and sometimes the winning text was staged. The adventure continues with this 11th edition,” we read on the radio website.
“The RFI call for submissions is launched this Monday, March 25 and to apply, candidates have five weeks to invent, refine, refine, adjust their text and send it to us before the deadline of Saturday, April 27, 2024, at midnight,” informed RFI yesterday.
Authors must be between 18 and 46 years old and send a text in French containing a minimum of 15 numbered pages in order to make the text more readable for the reading committee.
Interested parties must be born and living in Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean or the Middle East.
However, to take into account local political situations, RFI is opening its call for submissions to nationals of countries in the aforementioned zones, living in France for less than four years and holding a resident card or political refugee status.
Please also consult the regulation of the RFI Théâtre 2024 Prize, through this lienin order to be in line with the instructions of Radio France Internationale.
Interested parties must send their text with title and name of the author as well as the formregistration form provided for the 2024 edition at the email address: [email protected].
Accompaniment and support
RFI specifies that there will only be one winner, but among all the texts sent, a dozen will be preselected and proposed to an international jury.
“This prize allows you to be heard on the airwaves of RFI as part of the cycle of readings of ça va, ça va le monde!, recorded at the Avignon Festival, but all the loyal partners of this prize allow the winners to to benefit from working time whether at the Villa Ndar in Saint-Louis du Senegal, at the Maison des authors in Limoges or at the CDN Normandie-Rouen, from dramaturgical support with Théâtre Ouvert and the unfailing support of the SACD and the French Institute,” we read on the radio’s website.
Remember that the RFI Théâtre Prize, created in 2014, is in its eleventh edition. The last edition was won by the Cameroonian Éric Delphin Kwégoué with ” Open heart “. His work will be read at the Avignon Festival in the RFI reading cycle It’s okay, the world is okay! and premiered at the Autumn Zébrures Festival in Limoges in September.
The two editions preceding the one won by the Cameroonian Éric Delphin Kwégoué were won by a Haitian and a Haitian woman: Jean D’Amérique won it in 2021 for his play “Opéra Poussière”, and Gaëlle Bien-Aimé won it in 2022 with his play “Port-au-Prince and its sweet night”.
Let us also remember that the RFI Theater Prize is organized in partnership with the French Institute, the French Institute of Saint-Louis du Senegal, the National Drama Center of Normandy-Rouen, the SACD, Les Francophonies – From writings to the stage and the Open Theater, National Center for Contemporary Dramaturgies.
