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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.32,0:00:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Presenter] As festival season arrives, let's get concrete and move to Avignon.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.18,0:00:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have an interview this evening with actrice Emmanuelle Laborit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.69,0:00:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1993, she received the Molière for best theatre newcomer, you may remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.96,0:00:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for her extraordinary performance in "Les enfants du silence" [adapted from "Children of a Lesser God"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.77,0:00:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, she is here to talk about another very ambitious project:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.90,0:00:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let hearing people applaud a work entirely interpreted in sign language.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.29,0:00:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A report by our special envoys Dominique Poncet and Marc Félix.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.12,0:00:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Interpreter] Many foreigners come to the Avignon festival
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.86,0:00:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually, we feel a bit like a foreign actors' company.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.88,0:00:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to talk about our culture in this way, to show it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.22,0:00:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's true, it's a bit of a mad gamble.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.55,0:00:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its a bit mad because Thierry was completely committed to creating this piece
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.94,0:00:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in French Sign Language: it's not easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.100,0:00:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Journalist] with other deaf-mute actors like herself,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.18,0:00:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emmanuelle Laborit came to Avignon to take up a challenge:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.22,0:00:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let people listen to Sophocles' Antigone without the support of speech.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.22,0:01:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why this bet?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.56,0:01:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To free her deaf actor colleagues from the roles
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.94,0:01:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are usually typecast in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.47,0:01:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To also show the extraordinary richness of deaf sensitivity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.32,0:01:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]\N("Antigone, after Sophocles)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.22,0:01:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.47,0:01:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Interpreter] As for me, my work is fighting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.52,0:01:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can therefore play various roles.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.79,0:01:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a director wants to work with me, we can adapt anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.70,0:01:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can do anything together. Anything is possible truly.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.91,0:01:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.59,0:01:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's above all, a theatrical role: you use all the space
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.30,0:01:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you need to know how to use the space
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.17,0:01:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that an actor really doesn't know how to.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.20,0:02:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must learn to use facial expressions - these can be very subtile.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.40,0:02:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.56,0:02:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took me a little while to adapt:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.64,0:02:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the beginning I found it a little difficult - a little bit...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.16,0:02:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now, it's all good, you know? I've got in the swing of things
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.82,0:02:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've got completely used to living here; I could live in Avignon,