A man is standing awkwardly in front of a stage, he's feverish. He is shaking the branches of a tree under the windows of a very beautiful woman who reads, quietly, in her bedroom. He, looking like a passer-by one might cross on the pavement, is Joe Bloggs, ripe for an encounter and ready for love. She is inaccessible and doesn' t even glance his way. So, he speaks, he chatters, he tells stories, seeming almost to apologise for being there. And we, reassured by his glasses and his Woody Allen-type physique, we follow every word of his poetic ramblings. In Planète, a play he has written and directed, Yevgeny Grichkoviets plays an ordinary little man, going round our planet in vain like a crazy satellite in search of love. What Grichkoviets is telling us goes beyond the anecdotal and laughter, beyond humour and tenderness, beyond bits of life and fragments of daily existence, it is about relationships with others and their consequences, it is about an insurmountable solitude. He' s boastful, then shy, seductive then nostalgic, never at a loss for words, this magnificent story-teller gradually slips his gentle words into the big evils of humanity, making us the confidants of a universal and shared quest, a quest for the other, our double, our other-half, whom fate chooses, or not, to place on our path.
Distribution
stage direction Evguéni Grichkoviets
cast: Anna Doubrovskaïa, Yevegeny Grishkoviets
and Arnaud Le Glanic (simultanous translation)
costumes : Ioulia Vassilieva
stage design : Larissa Lomakina
Production
Production : Agence Irina Youtkina
Dans le cadre de :THEOREM, association soutenue par le programme Culture 2000 de l'Union européenne