Thésée, sa vie nouvelle

It’s the story of Theseus, caught in the labyrinth of memory, looking for a possible future. After the suicide of his brother and the death of his parents, he finds himself literally paralysed. He leaves Paris, taking with him three boxes of archives, hoping to live with his children in a town he believes to be without memory. But he is followed by the very thing he flees. Neither autobiography nor autofiction, Thésée, sa vie nouvelle listens to the words of the elders to give a face to past events and understand the present. 

Struck by the beauty of Camille de Toledo’s text, Valérie Dréville invites Guy Cassiers to bring it to the stage through theatre and video: alone in the middle of a stage covered in the author’s own archives, the actress explores the enigma of transmission, becoming a body-memory that resonates with the voices and silences of our legacies. 

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
Stage management Guillaume Zemor
Light management Matthias Schnyder
Video management Sebastian Hefti
Sound management Charlotte Constant
Administration, production, distribution Tristan Pannatier, Elizabeth Gay, Elyse Blanquet

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, 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
With the support of the Fondation Corymbo (Zurich), Fondation Françoise Champoud (Lausanne), Fondation Pro Scientia (Berne) and Arte 
For the 80th Festival d'Avignon Ambassade de Belgique en France, Délégation de Flandre