L'Inquiétude

“A man talks to animals, that is to beings without responses. He talks to 300 mute eyes. He gives The Speech to Animals, a navigation into the interior, that is, first in his language and his words. A man talks to animals and in this way talks to them about things we do not talk about: about what we experience, for examples, when we are carried to our extremes, torn apart, in the greatest darkness and far from a light, without words and close to a conclusion.”
Valère Novarina

“Anxiety is the second part of the stage adaptation of The Speech to Animals. I consider it the very intimate explosion of a child's words, the child that we imagine, the one that perhaps the author is, the one that I am. This child who discovers a gaping opening, a hole, an absence in himself and who suffers from it a great deal. An inability to discipline his mouth and his body and his desires. So it is a question of calling out, launching, protesting and shouting: God, or the stones, or the animals, or those who are listening.”
Stanislas Roquette

conception Stanislas Roquette, Céline Schaeffer
text L'Inquiétude by Valère Novarina (P.O.L)
interpretation Stanislas Roquette
direction Céline Schaeffer

with the support of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the company Artépo
and with the Centre national de la Danse and the Théâtre du Châtelet