Wed., March 25, 2:00 pm Live Segal TALK with Milo Rau & Servane Dècle, Richard Schechner a.o. about THE PELICOT TRIAL

In Person

SEGAL TALK with

MILO RAU & SERVANE DÈCLE

THE PELICOT TRIAL

... an oratorio

Wednesday, March 25,

2:00 PM

IN PERSON

Segal Theatre Center, 5th Ave. @ 34 Str.

Livestreamed via HowlRound

Join us for a pre-performance Segal Talk (live) with directors Milo Rau & Servane Dècle, Micah Bucey (Judson Church), Richard Schechner (NYU), author, activist and artist Tanya Selvaratnam about The Pelicot Trial: Tribute to Gisèle Pelicot at the Segal Center, The Graduate Center CUNY. Moderated by Frank Hentschker.

 “Shame must change sides.” With these words, as well as with her decision to make her trial public, Gisèle Pelicot has become a symbol in the fight to end violence against women. The rape case examines and reveals how, in this small town of Mazan in southern France, ordinary men of all ages and social backgrounds are capable of committing an inhumane crime: the repeated rape of an unconscious woman. Collaborating with the Pelicot family’s lawyers, the court, psychological experts, legal commentators, witnesses, and feminist organizations, Servane Dècle and Milo Rau recount the trial, laying bare an entire system: patriarchy.

Rau and Dècle’s extraordinary “Theatre of the Real” oratorio examines the Gisèle Pelicot case in a four-hour afternoon performance with readings of documents retracing and examining this groundbreaking historic trialMazan a watershed event that deeply entered the psyche of the French nation. The New York version of The Pelicot Trial: Tribute to Gisèle Pelicot will take place at the historic performance art venue Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village in New York City. Judson Church still serves also as a diverse, vibrant place of worship with it’s own congregation—creating a spiritual community through the pursuit of justice actions, talks, family events, sermons, social justice actions, creative expression, and contemplation. 

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center/The Graduate Center CUNY in collaboration with the Judson Memorial Church, Skirball NYU, supported by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York presents in New York City a special performance of the The Pelicot Trial, a production by Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen), co-produced by the Festival d’Avignon — by renowned Swiss director Milo Rau and Servane Dècle. 

This unique presentation features readings of the trial proceeding in the newly translated American adaptation of the sensational The Pelicot Trial, with the World Premiere at the Vienna Festival in 2025, later presented by the Avignon Festival—regarded by many as the highlight of the festival.

ALL TICKETS FOR THE PERFORMANCE ARE SOLD OUT.

For the free Livestream on Sunday, March 29, 6:00 pm

click  HERE —via HowlRound Theatre Commons at howlround.com 

Check HERE for world tour of The Pelicot Trial in Paris/France, St. Gallen/Switzerland, Milan/Itay, Bergen & Oslo/Norway, Copenhagen/Denmark, Belgrade/Serbia, Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina, Stockholm/Sweden, Warsaw/Poland, Lisbon/Portugal, Avignon/France, and Vienna/Austria.

Sunday Reading is supported by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.