La Chaire des Poules

In January 2024, far° launched the second Récits du futur, a writing, research, and creative residency. French-speaking actress Danae Dario, who won the first prize, presents a stage in the work of her first play La Chaire des Poules.

“The story is as follows :
Two female bodies go on strike. A hen and a woman,
Secluded in a waiting room,
Waiting together
To grow old.
Their reproductive function over,
Perhaps their bodies will be returned to them?
No more insatiable devouring of their flesh by Man. But perhaps…
Their bodies face each other.
Two unique forms of being in the world.
The hen clutches the perch with her reptilian legs, a trace of the long evolution of living beings.
But behind the feathered dinosaur some might see only nuggets in a tub.
Of the woman perched on heels, some would see only the outlines of a fuckable, controllable body.
As an act of resistance to these visions, the human woman casts an open gaze on the animal,
Rehabilitating both bodies as subjects.”
_Danae Dario

Photographs
©Arya Dil, far° Nyon 2024