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CEUX QUI ERRENT NE SE TROMPENT PAS (Those Who Wander Aren't Wrong)
Almost a year ago, in the Charterhouse of Villeneuve lez Avignon, Maëlle Poésy and Kevin Keiss first came up with the idea for their next play. Last summer, Kevin Keiss started writing the story of a country where 83% of the population votes blank, based on a synopsis they'd worked on together. This fall, they're calling on six actors to talk about this “white plague,” this loss of confidence in institutions. Ceux qui errant ne se trompent pas (Those Who Wander Aren't Wrong) is a short text, a play created for the 70th edition of the Festival d'Avignon, which is about both a revolt that takes place in polling booths and the authoritarian reaction it leads to. Their idea: to follow the investigator tasked with understanding and solving that phenomenon, a man who leaves indoctrination behind and starts thinking for himself.
MAËLLE POÉSY
An actress and a director, Maëlle Poésy trained both in France and abroad; with her background in theatre and modern dance, she has worked with many stage directors and appeared in movies. Maëlle Poésy likes to meet people, to create with others. Since 2012, she has been the artist-in-residence at the Espace des Arts of Châlons-sur-Saône, where in 2014 she created Candide, Si c'est ça le meilleur des mondes (Candide, If that's the best of all possible worlds...), based on Voltaire's work, which is still in production. In 2016, she will direct two short plays at the Studio de la Comédie Française, as well as Ceux qui errant ne se trompent pas, on which she is working with author Kevin Keiss. Our relationship to power and man's quest for lucidity are the two themes she most often focuses on.
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