Tous des oiseaux

Cie Edelweiss
A text by Wajdi Mouawad
Directed by Alain Bonvin

Shaken by the violence of the world, the personal story of Eitan, a young German scientist of Israeli origin, confronted with a violent conflict with his father, shows how, in fratricidal struggles, no one reality can dominate another. Every conflict hides a labyrinth, that of forgotten legacies.

In a genetics laboratory, Eitan, a young German Jewish researcher, meets Wahida, an American doctoral student of Arab origin. Their love blossoms naturally, far from the divisions, borders and conflicts that oppose their legacies. But everything changes the day Eitan is the victim of an attack in Jerusalem. While he is in a coma, Wahida finds herself facing a family she does not know, in a country she does not understand, where every word spoken becomes a minefield.

Tous des oiseaux is an intimate and political fresco that explores questions of identity, heritage and memory. Through characters torn between loyalty and truth, it questions origin, blood and the weight of belonging.

It is a play in which we seek to understand where we come from in order to know where we are going, a play in which love tries to survive history, where the intimate clashes with the political. And in the midst of this turmoil, one haunting question: can we free ourselves from the chains of heritage, or are we condemned to bear it like a curse?