Alliance, in collaboration with the French Institute of Senegal, the Senegalese director Abdou Sambou and the French stage designer Anne Laure Jullian de la Fuente from the NOUMEC Company, organised a month of workshops in its premises with 13 Gambian actors, for the final creation of the play Nekuñufi (Absence). This multilingual project (French, Wolof and English) enabled the company to offer training and a performance based on the richness of language, including the French language. At the same time, the NOUMEC Company welcomed every afternoon at the Alliance Française, 12 students from the international bilingual school SBEC to work for a month on the play “Une extraterrestre” by Luc Tartar, extracted from a collection of the Festival 10/10. These collaborations gave birth to two French-language plays, highlighting the richness of our shared cultures. This artistic residency was made possible thanks to the support of the French Institute of Dakar and the French Embassy.