Olivier Saccomano
Nathalie Garraud, director, and Olivier Saccomano, playwright, continue the work they started in 2006 with the Compagnie du Zieu, an original dramatic project based on thematic cycles. After The Suppliants, a cycle on tragedy (2007-2010), It's Good, It's Bad, a cycle on youth (2010-2013), they began a cycle revolving around the figure on the foreigner, called Spectres of Europe (2013-2015). After two short plays, which they call study plays, The Benefits of Spring, rehearsed and created during their time as artists-in-residence at the FabricA in November 2013, and Othello, Variation for three actors, which played last year at the Festival d'Avignon, Nathalie Garraud and Olivier Saccomano will present Suddenly the Night to close this cycle. Their work with the company plays an integral part in the creation of the play, and they see their unique writing style as a constant dialogue with the times, in which poetics and politics are inseparable. The text and the stage are to them the setting of a collective research about dramatic writing and the practice of the actor, as well as of an experiment in collective thinking.
