With Matrices, playwright and actress Daniely Francisque signs a vibrant, poetic creation where memory, filiation and Caribbean female voices intertwine. Somewhere between theater, gesture and ritual, the play deploys a rare emotional power, carried by a sensitive, embodied writing style.

A complete artist

Born in Martinique, Daniely Francisque is an actress, director and playwright. Trained at Luc Saint-Éloy's Théâtre de l'Air nouveau drama workshop and at the Laboratoire de l'acteur-Hélène Zidi, she took to the stage for the first time in 1994. During a career spanning some thirty years, she has appeared in over a hundred productions in theater, television and film, including Tourments d'amour by Caroline Jules, Section de recherches and Tropiques criminels. In 2010, she co-founded the TRACK company with Patrice Le Namouric, imagining pieces that evoke femininity, intimacy, violence and memories.

A moving life journey

Imagined by Daniely Francisque, Matrices follows the journey of a woman who traces the thread of her family history to understand the wounds, silences and strengths passed down from generation to generation. Through fragments of stories, visions and memories that emerge from the body, she summons the voices of the mothers, grandmothers and invisible women who preceded her. Little by little, these presences help her shed light on what in her life comes from them: fears, legacies, resistance, but also power and rebirth.

A sensitive and intense play

With Matrices, Daniely Francisque has created a work of rare intensity, blending theater, poetry and choreographic gesture to probe the intimate memories of Caribbean women. Behind a refined, luminous form, the show unfolds a deeply embodied writing style, in which the voices of the past emerge in bursts, like scars that speak. The stage becomes a space for excavation, exhumation and repair. Far from pathos, Matrices moves forward with vibrant sensitivity and moving evocative power, inviting audiences to take a fresh look at what runs through us and builds us up. A breathtaking work, which transforms as much as it consoles.

Supported by the Institut français

Presented in a reading at the Zébrures d'automne festival in Limoges in 2022, Matrices won the Prix ETC Caraïbe 2021. Buoyed by an enthusiastic reception in France and internationally, the show was supported by the Des mots à la scèneprogram of the Institut français in 2023.

Des Mots à la Scène: winners 2025

The Zébrures d'automne also announced the new winners of the Des Mots à la Scène program, who will benefit from support until December 2026, covering the research, writing, creation and dissemination stages.

• This letter I may never write to you - Vova Théâtre (DRC)
• Yuma Sow - Compagnie 5H45 (France hexagonale)
• Et si je les tuais tous Madame? - INA Culture (Burundi)
• Les Flamboyantes - Lisa Klax (La Réunion)
• Le Patron - Trilogie - Les Noctambules KS and CO (Guyane)
• Profanations - Studios Kabako, Faustin Linyekula & Franck Moka (RDC)
• La Bible du déboulonnement -Nous Théâtre (France / Haïti)
• Je ne serai jamais présidente (écriture à trois mains) - Jeanne Diama (France / Mali)
• EXTRAvaGANTE - Matilda Pierre (French Guiana / Haiti)
• Résonances - Des révoltes silencieuses- Compagnie Gondwana (France)
• La Vallée des étoiles (working title) - Shady Nafar (France / Iran)

Entre ici et là- bas - Solange des étoiles (France / France)bas - Solange Muneme Makuwa (RDC)

• Peau noire, masques blancs (working title) - Théâtre des deux saisons (France / Martinique / Algeria)
• On ne lapide pas l'oiseau - Compagnie Feugham (Cameroon)
• Fadhila - Bottom Théâtre (France / Burkina Faso)