Femmes des Caraïbes

With Femmes des Caraïbes, Michael Mac Batz opens a vast theatrical cycle dedicated to female figures who traversed the history of the Caribbean while resisting oppression, slavery, and erasure. This first stage honors two heroines: Queen Nanny, legendary Jamaican maroon leader, and Solitude, a Guadeloupean fighter committed alongside Louis Delgrès against the re-establishment of slavery by Napoleon.

Between historical narrative and poetic breath, the show gives voice to burning memories of freedom. On stage, an actress can become an entire people, bring forth a mountain sanctuary, a plantation, a battle, or a prison. The solo-performance form then transforms into a fresco inhabited by songs, ghosts, and revolts.

From Jamaica to the French West Indies, Femmes des Caraïbes unfolds vibrant, embodied theater, crossed by the voices of those whom History too often left on the margins of pages.