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Pèlen-Tèt Text by Franckétienne Directed by Staloff Tropfort Interpreted by Kenny Laguerre, Erthon Edmond and Stevenson Saintiné A basement in New York. Two Haitian fellow citizens. An unlikely duo. The intellectual and the illiterate. The political activist forced to flee to save his skin and the hard-working worker whose only ambition is for his little life, his little family. These two men sharing this cavernous space talk about Haiti, their respective lives and their chimeras. Pèlen-Tèt traces the journey of two men from two different backgrounds, rural and urban; but also of an era, that of the Duvalier dictatorship. The urgency to exist, homesickness and the frustration of exiles. In this basement, Polidò (the intellectual) and Pyram (the worker) are condemned to put up with each other. Polidò, tormented by the demons of the dictatorship, drowns himself in his books and thoughts while Pyram, crushed by his frustrations, constantly rehashes the memories of Haiti.