Adeline Rosenstein

‘Infinitely patient’ in a country where everyone  
lives on the embers of anger - Mahmoud Darwish  

The documentary series Décris-Ravage took seven years to write. It began in the wake of Operation Cast Lead, the bombing of the Gaza Strip in 2008-2009, a war crime so egregious and so meticulously documented that we believed it would lead to international sanctions and, at the very least, the decolonisation of Palestine within the 1967 borders. 

However, deadly operations have multiplied, with impunity eroding the meaning of everything we do.  

Never mind, we continue, betting that we must say and repeat how the situation of millions of Palestinians concerns us here in Europe. We must explain and make clear our share of responsibility in this ongoing injustice.  

And then October 2023 arrived, sweeping away what little patience we had left. 

How can we summarise and take in the last 250 years in an hour without getting angry? How can we arm ourselves against the current attempt to deny a people? This is what this impatient version of Décris-Ravage, entitled Ravage tout court, attempts to do with the tools of theatre.