Chiquet Mawet

Chiquet Mawet (born Michelle Beaujean; 23 January 1937 – 4 July 2000) was a playwright, storyteller, poet, social activist and professor of ethics. Part of the generation between Stalingrad in 1942 and May 1968, Beaujean was fascinated at the age of 20 by the hope of self-managed socialism (Titoism) in Yugoslavia. At 30, she became a pioneer of the anti-nuclear movement in Belgium. At 50, she flirted with anarchists. A playwright, in addition to her texts and articles, Mawet was the author of numerous plays including La Pomme des hommes, Le prince-serpent, Le Pape et la putain, Caïus et Umbrella, and Nuinottenakt. 1990: Piratons Perrault. Funny and incisive recovery of the illustrious Contes de ma mère l'Oye by Charles Perrault. The ogre, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Snow White, Le Petit Poucet, Le Chat botté... all of these characters have lived in everyone's memory. Chiquet Mawet made a point of redistributing the roles conceived three centuries earlier by the famous French writer during the atomic era. And, updated in this way, these characters can reveal unimaginable and scandalous secrets. 1994: The Pope and the Whore. Argument: God sends Pope Julius, assisted by his secretary Francis, to a new Mary, better suited to our valley of tears. Maria, a Moscow mother who occasionally works as a prostitute, is the victim of this modern annunciation which will take place at a time when all the social and political orientations which are currently being put in place in the world will converge towards final chaos. There is a first version of this text entitled Maria or The Pope and the Whore. In 1989, she was a founding member of the association Silence, les Dunes! which brought together around ten artists from the Verviers region. On 19 June 1975, during a press conference in Brussels announcing the creation of a Common Anti-Nuclear Front (FAAN), Michèle Beaujean represented the APRI (Association for the Protection against Ionizing Radiation).