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The superb heroine of Alain Platel’s shows, the bare woman in his autobiographical show “Look mum I’m dancing”, the funny and involved actress-writer, comes back in a new shocking creation, White Woman. Morocco, 1925. The country is still a French colony. A French widow (Claire) and her young Moroccan servant (Slimane) are talking together on the terrace of the wide mansion her husband, who has just died, recently build. From the funerals story to the gap between them, deeper than what it looks like, they’re going to dig up all the tales of colonization. Vanessa Van Durme, inspired by the 2005 suburban riots near Paris, wrote a strong political text. The aim isn’t to find an absolute answer but to ask the good questions. Violence is sometimes the only outlet to anger and frustration for people who are excluded from the debate because they don’t match occidental norms. During the 60’s, Europe opened its frontiers to workers coming from Italy, Spain, Turkey, Algeria and Morocco. Now that the years of economic prosperity are over, that the unemployment rate is higher among “foreigners” and that they live in ghettos, are the riots so surprising?