Public confession was the rule in the primitive Church. This is not however the choice for Michel Didym and Walter Manfré in Les Confessions, a production with a liberating edge that is played out interactively among twelve male actors declaring blameful facts or dreams - so the issue of guilt is not a question here - to twelve female spectators, and then the two groups swap roles in the space of an instant. The scripts for Les Confessions were commissioned from contemporary playwrights, and most of them are personal fantasies of all types. The special audience is not there to act as a priest, giving absolution or inflicting a penitence at the end of the confession. That audience is involved actively in the secrets through an intimate physical presence between the confessor and the person confessing, in the complicity and final accord for pardon in a word in as much as it is spoken and thus, admitted.
Distribution
stage direction Michel Didym, Walter Manfré et Véronique Bellegarde
21 actors directed by : Michel Didym and Walter Manfré
A project by : Walter Manfré
In collaboration with : Véronique Bellegarde
Based on texts by : French, Italian and South-American authors
Cast : Stéphane Algoud, Frédéric Amico, Xavier Berlioz, Axelle Charvoz, Sabrina Delarue, Damien Eupherte, Olivia Guilmard-Reynaud, Emilie Hébrard, Carine Lacroix, Jérémy Lippmann, Florence Masure, Souad Mouchrik, Alexandre Mousset, Elsa Pasquier, Lucia Sanchez, Tomer Sisley, Alexis Smolen, Sebastien Tavel, Saliha Terki, Karim Traïka, Guillaume Viry
Production
Production de : l'Adami
En partenariat avec : l'ANPE-Spectacle