Six Days in October

Thai artist Wichaya Artamat, a leading figure of the country's new theatre scene, continues his theatrical exploration of his nation's political history, exploring how society remembers and conceals its history through certain dates in the calendar.

What if, for one evening, we let ourselves shiver while listening to ghost stories?

These stories, so popular in Thailand, whether on the radio or on YouTube, also hide a more political meaning… October, in particular, is a month haunted by the ghosts of mysteriously disappeared opponents and brutally suppressed protests.

Working in semi-secrecy, Wichaya Artamat explores how a society remembers history and conceals it. For the dead remember unfinished struggles and keep protesting, planting the seeds of a revolt yet to come.

Soon, it's the theatre itself and all its machinery that rustles with strange presences.

A shiver down the spine, the anguish that grips the heart, hair standing on end… by drawing on the supernatural, Six Days in October (The Dead Still Riot) also imagines itself as a sensory experience. With the Festival d'Automne