A play titled The Pelicot Trial: Tribute to Gisele Pelicot will be staged in Avignon, focusing on the trial related to her drugging and rape over nearly a decade. Directed by Milo Rau, known for courtroom adaptations, the production aims to address issues of rape culture and patriarchy. Gisele Pelicot, who bravely waived her anonymity for a public trial, received a civic honor for her courage in confronting societal attitudes toward rape. The performance reflects a collective examination of societal accountability in the context of sexual violence.
Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged and raped by her husband and other men for almost a decade, said that shame must change sides.
The Pelicot piece was about looking at rape culture, the trivialisation of rape and patriarchy in all its forms.
To have done nothing would have been like not speaking of Gaza or of Ukraine, it would have been a silence that's complicit.
Through the Pelicot trial, it's ourselves and our society on trial, he said.
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