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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
National
Alison Hird

Theatre makes a spectacle of breaking taboos in New Caledonia

Kanak and French flags pictured on 27 July 2013 on Ouvea island, part of the French oversea territory of New Caledonia. © Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP

Debating politics has never been easy on the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, where the question of independence is a thorny issue. With talks between those who support separating from France and those who want to remain part of it still deadlocked, writer Jenny Briffa has turned to comedy to say the unsayable.

Caledonian writer Louis-José Barbançon dubbed New Caledonia the pays du non-dit – a country where much goes unsaid.

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