"For a longtime a went to bed early", says the narrator. And so the thread of memory of pulls the souvenirs, "pushes time with its shoulder", as Saint Simon said two centuries earlier. Buried sensations and emotions rise to the surface: the long-awaited kisses from a mother who was too worldly, kisses that never landed on the cheek of the child, miracles of nature at Combray, a thousand cavalrymen crossing the town, the strange behaviour of adults, the image of a grandmother who the grandson wants to join beyond death. How can Proust be staged ? For example, by creating a clear, transparent box for sixty spectators where they become onlooker and listener, seated and lying down, awake and in a dream. The space is cosy, warm and conducive to using the memory allowing for the movement of the language and the rhythms of the work to cross the variations of light. One might imagine oneself in a bedroom, but also in a field of hawthorns or a field of apple trees - in a region of oneself that is so ancient. Serge Maggiani performs this adaptation of Combray and Les Intermittences du Coeur (The irregularities of the Heart): two moments borrowed from the first volume of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Rememberance of Things Past).
Distribution
stage direction Charles Tordjman
with :Serge Maggiani
stage design : Benoît Delaunay, Daniel Jeanneteau and Vincent Tordjman
lighting : Christian Pinaud
adapted by : Serge Maggiani and Charles Tordjman
musicians : Aurélien Ferrette and Julien Prévost
costumes provided by : Yohji Yamamoto
Production
Production : Théâtre de la Manufacture/centre dramatique national Nancy Lorraine
Avec la participation artistique du : Jeune Théâtre national