Délire à deux

There aren't any wrong reasons to have a domestic row. Especially when for the last 27 years, it has become the daily life of an improbable couple that fights a personal battle while the sounds of civil war ring around it. There aren't any wrong reasons either for Eugene Ionesco to make this little drama into a superb comedy. An unusual comedy, of course, but attesting at the same time to the diversity of the facets of an author too quickly limited to the theatre of the absurd. With Frenzy for Two or More, we discover everything that makes Ionesco one of the great playwrights of the 20th century: this author who is a past master in the art of dialogue and in the handling of this French language that he venerated, coupled with an ingenious craftsman who subverted theatre conventions by durably shaking them up. With him, language is decomposed and derailed for our great pleasure, rolling out a poetic world that ends up swallowing us up. Like many comedies, Frenzy for Two or More cleverly conceals the tragic dimension of life. It is both a scorching lesson in sarcastic humour and a questioning on the indispensable hope that the strength of the human relationship represents in a world that is a prey to ever more threatening violence. Him and Her protect each other from outside attacks by whole-heartedly aggressing each other, maintaining a close bond between them, a protective bond that permits survival. Valérie Dréville and Didier Galas, who have wanted to work together for a long time, will form this inseparable couple, who nevertheless constantly talk about separation. Brought together by Christophe Feutrier, they will incarnate these two human beings who seem to live their lives in a dream to better avoid confronting death. Death inscribed in their body, like death that has come from the outside world and that knocks on their door. JFP

director Christophe Feutrier
dramaturg Denys Laboutière
scenographer Christophe Feutrier, Jean-Pierre Schneider
choreographer Philippe Ducou
sound designer and music supervisor Samuel Sighicelli
lighting Samuel Marchina
costumes Olga Karpinsky

with Valérie Dréville, Didier Galas

production Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne E.T.E
avec le soutien de Pro Helvetia-Fondation suisse pour la Culture