Gwenaël Morin
He was supposed to be an architect. But four years into his studies, Gwenaël Morin chose the path of theatre, notably working alongside Michel Raskine as his assistant. In 2009, at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, he started experimenting with the idea of “permanent theatre”, based on three principles: performing every night, rehearsing every day, and continuously passing on what he’d learnt. With his company, he staged Woyzeck, Hamlet, Bérénice, Antigone, and more. From 2013 to 2018, he directed the Théâtre du Point du Jour in Lyon, where he created Les Molière de Vitez and Les Tragédies de juillet. From Beckett to Sophocles, from Molière to Racine and now Shakespeare – those champions of raw, ever-evolving theatre – his radical productions free the actors from the artifices of performance to bridge the gap between the audience and the raw power of classical texts. Avignon audiences experienced his Andromaque à l’infini during the Semaine d’art in 2020, followed by Le Songe in 2023. This marked the beginning of his theatrical journey in Avignon at Tiago Rodrigues’s invitation: to present at every edition, from 2023 to 2026, a work in relation to the guest language, under the title Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont.
