The scene takes place in a play staged at the Avignon Theater Festival, which was heavily financed by the French state.
"Because under the guise of art, anything can happen today. Being openly racist or a sadistic wretch. And the world does not shut out such dark-hearted, sick beasts. Well, now let's try to imagine a "white artist" with "black" babies on a skewer... our ears would be ringing from the squealing if this happened." Xian Na writes on Facebook.
But that's not all
Rebecca Chaillon's play, which was titled Black Card Named Desire reads the SKpop website. The sight of dozens of skewered white babies blew many people's minds. The two-hour-and-45-minute piece originally focused on stereotypes and fantasies that Caucasian people often attribute to black people, they write.
However, the viewers interpreted the play as anti-family and anti-white propaganda (it is incomprehensible why... - ed.).
Compagnie Dans le Ventre, attendees were unimpressed by three of the five performances. At one performance, the audience raised the middle finger when one of the speakers spoke about police brutality.
In another case, a member of the audience attacked a performer during the play. As part of the performance, an actor grabbed a bag from an audience member of the show to represent "colonialism". This led to the viewer punching the performer in the face.
The organization performing at the festival also told local news agencies that they were also attacked outside the theater.
After the outbursts of the audience, Tiago Rodrigues, the director of the festival, announced that
"violent and racist gestures are not acceptable" at the festival.
He also added that the festival
"expressed solidarity with this troupe and worked to create a safe and calm atmosphere for the performance".
