Hubert Colas
At the heart of Hubert Colas' theatre, there are words. His words when he is an author, those of the great poets of the theatre when he seeks to confront other writings. Gombrowicz, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Shakespeare have been some of the working companions of this director who seeks to make the actors' bodies move through the power of words. The force of the language is the vital energy of his interpreters who speak the truth by acting what is false, inextricably blending fiction and reality to disturb the spectator. There is therefore flesh in Hubert Colas' writing, nervousness, tension, action. Everything that is needed to create expectation and make what is buried, what is imperfect, what threatens, spring out. But there is also what liberates, what blossoms, what can bring peace. This dual movement takes up the entire stage in the works of Hubert Colas, who never turns down the help provided by other artistic forms, in a proclaimed and assumed multidisciplinary approach, in the image of Montévidéo, the contemporary creation centre based in Marseilles of which he is co-director, and the actOral festival that he initiated in 2002. After The Birds' Cross in 1996 and Hamlet and Facing the Wall in 2005, Hubert Colas returns to Avignon with a premiere, which he wrote and directs, and two texts by Sonia Chiambretto.