Field of intervention :Training and insertion
Association : La Compagnie du Labyrinthe
Project :« El Caballero de Paris »
Localisation :Havana
Country :Cuba
Supported Group :250 people in difficulty
 
Objective

An introduction to drama for psychiatric-hospital patients and their doctors.

Project holder

Eric Peyre, Regional Sales Manager, Accor Tourism et Leisure.

Association

La Compagnie du Labyrinthe is a French non-profit organization set up in 1985 by Serge Sandor, a French theatre director. Its aim is to create, promote and produce live audio-visual performances and training actions.

Project

Compagnie du LabyrintheDrawing on various experiences with people in very difficult circumstances (prisons, homeless people, etc.), Serge Sandor wrote a play for 250 patients in two psychiatric hospitals in Havana, in Cuba. This play presents the life of “El Caballero de Paris”, an emblematic figure in the streets of Havana in the 1950s, known to the inhabitants for his religious, political or philosophical speeches.

4 performances were given in Havana on November 17,  20, 21 and 22, 2009 with 150 patients involved as actors and 100 patients who produced the costumes. This project also gave doctors and workshop managers in these hospitals training in drama and the different related crafts (costumes, music, sets….).

This Foundation financed musical instruments and sewing machines, which are used for the workshops but kept in the hospital, to take the work with patients up to the next level.

support €12,000 in 2009
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