Barber Shop Chronicles

Barber Shop Chronicles Inua Ellams / Junior Mthombeni / Michael De Cock theatre / music Salle Renaud-Barrault Running time 2h20 Performed in French, with English surtitles Chit-chat and beard trimming go hand in hand At the barber's, people build community as much as they celebrate and put the world to rights!

At the barber's, people build community as much as they celebrate and put the world to rights! On this day of the Champions League final, television sets blare their excitement in cities all over the world.

Barber Shop Chronicles unfolds over a single day in several hair salons, from Brussels to Dakar. Africans and people of African descent talk loudly and freely about daily life, raising children, exile, masculinity, racism and football, of course.

Michael De Cock and Junior Mthombeni orchestrate these mixed-heritage snappy exchanges with great skill, rich in subjects for reflection and with a communicative vitality.

Text Inua Ellams Direction Junior Mthombeni, Michael De Cock Cast Priscilla Adade, Junior Akwety, BATGAME, Hippolyte Bohouo, Martin Chishimba, Salif Cissé, Yoli Fuller, Aristote Luyindula, José Mavà, Jovial Mbenga, Souleymane Sylla, Clyde Yeguete Adaptation Junior Akwety, Omar Ba, Caroline Gonce Collective translation by Master 1 translation students (ULiège) under the direction of Valérie Bada (Centre interdisciplinaire de recherches en traduction et en interprétation) Set and lighting design Stef Stessel Costumes Marie Lovenberg Producer and musician BATGAME Artistic collaboration Caroline Gonce Dramaturgy Gerardo Salinas Assistant director Mehdy Khachachi Choreography advice Serge Aimé Coulibaly General stage management Baptiste Wattier and Philippe Sumkay Lighting technician Antoine Fiori Sound technician Kevin Jaspar Stage management Aristide Schmit Photos Stef Stessel Set construction and costume production Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège