latest news and projects
here's a glimpse of what's on now and cooking
Fade to Black
October 21st- 27th
FADE TO BLACK is a short film topsy-turving the Luxembourg-founding myth of the siren Melusina, It grotesquely addresses well-meant mechanisms of white fragility in the progressive, artistic industries.
Fade to Black is screening in the KUERZ A KNACKEG VOL.3 Shivers. By LARS & CINEXTDOOR
%20Bohumil%20KOSTOHRYZ%200663.jpeg)
7 methods of killing Kylie Jenner
October 20-24th
JASMINE LEE-JONES
Cleo has locked herself in her bedroom to write her dissertation on structural racism when a tweet sets her off: “At 21, Kylie Jenner becomes the youngest self-made billionaire ever.” But what’s self-made about inherited wealth and white privilege?
Fueled by frustration, Cleo launches a series of anonymous tweets under the hashtag #kyliejennerfidead, fiercely calling out how white women appropriate and profit from Black culture and stereotypes. As her best friend voices concerns about Cleo’s digital escapism and the lines between online and offline blur, their childhood bond is tested by their differing lived experiences.
In this sharp, fast-paced, darkly comedic drama, Jasmine Lee-Jones tackles pressing debates around Black identity, beauty standards, cultural appropriation, racism, queerness, and wokism. She immerses the audience in the shifting realities of youth culture, provocatively exploring who owns Black female bodies—both online and in real life.
@Théâtre du Centaure
The Lobster Considers
October 3rd-13th
A government-certified kitchen. The year is unspecified but close. The consumption of food has been bureaucraticized. Like every morning, Inspector Vetch routinely checks the water temperature of the cauldron - for the unlikely event of boiling a Sentient Protein Unit - when Citizen M, comes to claim her Lobster. M has led a life performed to perfection and accumulated enough Alimentary Merit Points to be entitled this trophy. But when confronted with the beast, she needs to come to terms with what killing an animal actually means. A question that humanity has learned to conveniently avoid.
Loosely inspired by the philosophical incoherences explored, but never resolved by David Foster Wallace in his essay
Consider The Lobster, the three end up entangled in a dystopian musical kaleidoscope about ethics and consumerism, pleasure and restraint—and the disturbing mechanisms of convenient uncertainty kicking in when we make many of our life choices.
In her typical entertaining, grotesque and discursive manner, Anne Simon tackles a thought-provoking subject that is making a comeback, and not just in the literary world.
COACHING
I offer individually adapted lessons for audition training, character work and role preparation for professional actors, students or curious individuals who want to improve their public speaking skills.
