Les Perses

Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont

by Aeschylus

  • Show
  • Theatre

Gwenaël Morin

France / Creation Festival d'Avignon 2025

With local performers he met through theatre workshops, Gwenaël Morin once again takes on an iconic work from the repertoire, embracing its strangeness and seeking the possibility of dialogue in its very distance from us. 

Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont, Gwenaël Morin, 2025 © DR

Presentation

Every year, the Festival d’Avignon invites Gwenaël Morin to create a show as part of the Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont (Dismantle the walls to finish the bridge) project. As its playfully provocative title suggests, its aim is to turn obstacles into opportunities for collective creation. In previous editions, the director met local performers who, in his own words, helped him make theatre. With them at his side, he once again takes on one of the great works of the repertoire, guided by his instinctive relationship with the text. Never afraid to tackle ancient works – sometimes dating back millennia – Gwenaël Morin’s theatre refuses to erase their fundamental strangeness, instead embracing the distance that separates us from these texts as a necessary condition for dialogue. 

برفقة مؤدين محليين تم لقاؤهم خلال ورشات المسرح، يعود جوينايل مورين إلى عملٍ رمزي من الموسوعة، متقبّلاً الغرابة، وباحثاً عن فرصةً للحوار في الأفق. 

Distribution

With performers from the theatre workshops held in Avignon since 2023

Direction
Gwenaël Morin 
Lighting Philippe Gladieux 
Assistant Direction Canelle Breymayer 
General Stage Management Loïc Even
Production and Distribution Emmanuelle Ossena, Charlotte Pesle Beal

Production

Production déléguée Compagnie Gwenaël Morin - Théâtre Permanent 
Coproduction Festival d’Avignon
Residency Festival d’Avignon, Maison Jean Vilar (Avignon) 

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