Department of French

A World Premiere

Sigui Siguila Siguiya

S'absenter pour être enfin là (Vanishing, to be there at last ), a new Ivorian play by GU Professor of
French and African Studies, Amadou Koné, directed in the Gonda Theatre of Georgetown's new
Davis Performing Arts Center by GU Professor of French and Theater Studies, Roger Bensky

 Amadou Koné’s major new work is a cautionary tale about a fictitious West African nation whose long-reigning leader has died and which we now find stuck in the impasse between mourning the past and bringing on the future. Why?  Because a secret something called siguila, which we understand to be a sacred representation of the Origins according to several peoples of the region, and which is essential to the ritual bestowing of power on the new leader, has been inexplicably misplaced. Unless siguila, which we never actually see, and which even the official guardians of the traditions seem no longer able to fathom and describe correctly, can be found and restored to its rightful place in the rituals of transition, the society of this fictitious land will forever remain in socio-political limbo.

Performed in French

with English Subtitles

November 30, December 1, and

December 2 | 8:00pm

December 2 and December 3 |2:00pm

 Gonda Theatre

Davis Performing Arts Center

 TICKETS

$15 General Admission

$7 GU Students:

$12  GU Faculty and Staff