Valérie Dréville and Guy Cassiers
Belgium – France / Created in 2026
This performance contains references to suicide.
Stories, poems, photographs: the thousand voices and faces that make up Camille de Toledo’s novel echo in this adaptation, a journey through the labyrinth of the history of 20th-century Europe.
It’s the story of Theseus, lost in the labyrinth of memory, searching for a possible future. After his brother’s suicide and the death of his parents, he leaves “the city in the West,” bound for a place he believes is without memory, taking with him three boxes of archives. But he is pursued by what he flees. His body paralyzes, reminding him of what he refuses to hear. He opens the boxes, and with them, the “windows of time”… Thus begins a documentary and fictional investigation that navigates between the lives of his ancestors and the social and political history of Europe.
Struck by the beauty of Camille de Toledo’s text, Valérie Dréville invites Guy Cassiers to stage and visualize it together. Alone at the center of a stage covered in the author’s archives, the actress resumes the investigation and questions the enigma of transmission. A body-memory emerges, marked by trauma and history, opening personal history to myth.
이야기와 시, 사진으로 이루어진 카미유 드 톨레도의 소설 속 수많은 목소리와 얼굴들이 20세기 유럽 역사의 미로를 따라 떠나는 여정인 이 각색 작품 속에서 울려 퍼진다.
With Valérie Dréville
Adaptation from Camille de Toledo's Theseus, His New Life
Concept and direction Guy Cassiers and Valérie Dréville
Video Bram Delafonteyne
Sound Jeroen Kenens
Light Zélie Champeau
Artistic collaboration Benoît De Leersnyder
Direction assistantship Tristan Pannatier
Outside look Blandine Savetier
Stage management Guillaume Zemor
Lighting operator Matthias Schnyder
Video operator Sebastian Hefti
Sound operator Charlotte Constant
Accessories, costumes and set building Ateliers du Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Administration, production, distribution Tristan Pannatier, Elizabeth Gay, Elyse Blanquet
English translation for the surtitles Corinne Hundleby
Production Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Coproduction Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, Le Volcan - scène nationale du Havre, TANDEM Scène nationale (Arras, Douai), Mixt - terrain d’arts en Loire-Atlantique (Nantes), Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, Centre dramatique national, Les Gémeaux - Scène Nationale (Sceaux), Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Maison Saint-Gervais - Genève - MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny)
As part of Projet Interreg franco-suisse n° 20919 - LACS - Annecy-Chambéry-Besançon-Genève-Lausanne
Support Fondation Corymbo, Fondation Françoise Champoud, Fondation Pro Scientia et Arte (Berne), Fondation Denk an Mich for the accessibility feature
For the 80th Festival d'Avignon Ambassade de Belgique – Délégation de la Flandre en France
Duration : 1h40
This performance contains references to suicide.
In french
Surtitled in english
Return trip shuttle (€7)
Departure from Avignon-Poste at 10.45 am for the 12 noon and 5.30 pm performances, and at 10.45 am for the 7 pm performance. Bookings must be made at the box office.
CONSIDER CARPOOLING
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Last entry 15 minutes before the show.
Cloître Saint-Louis
Duration : 1h
The 2026 archive
Cloître Saint-Louis
Duration : 1h30
The 2026 archive
