"Tout doit disparaître", extraits
Sales day: consumers gather at the doors of a supermarket, tension rises and the opening of the gates degenerates into a riot. People run in to grab merchandise, bodies are pushed, store windows broken, shelves turned upside-down, some people take refuge, others try to run away. The sales become a site of ordinary madness, of a battle against economic slavery, a struggle lost in advance as the revolts, like the merchandise, are called on to disappear. Everything must disappear, right?
Éric Pessan, born in 1970, is an author of novels, theatre and radio plays, the latter for France Culture, and works in collaboration with visual artists. He regularly runs writing workshops as well as literary encounters. Tout doit disparaître is his first play. It was the subject of a session at the École pratique des Auteurs de Théâtre (EPAT) of Théâtre Ouvert, with Jean-Christophe Saïs and the students from the Théâtre national de Bretagne de Rennes, in February 2010.
Distribution
text Éric Pessan
mise en espace Frédéric Maragnani
with the cooperation of Vanessa Lechat
with Laurent Charpentier, Catherine Hiegel, Émilien Tessier, Christèle Tual, Philippe Vieux, Gaëtan Vourc'h
Production
coproduction Compagnie Travaux Publics / avec le soutien de l'Association Beaumarchais (Sacd), de la Ville de Bordeaux et de la Région Aquitaine