The characters in Sleep You move about, or rather, don't move about, in a dormitory that we could be tempted to think was in a psychiatric hospital. But it could just as well be a children's bedroom in which brothers and sisters replay their traumas over and over again. "They said no family", one of them confides to us. What link can therefore really unite these five bodies gone astray, apart from their monologues all evoking doctors, dolls and medications? All of them take turns at the lectern, to recount their dreams, among which are the usual ones: dreams about falls, snakes and breast milk. Confessions? Reminiscences? Testimonies? Only one woman seems to record these tales and consequently incarnate a little authority. But she will also go to the lectern, leaving us the sole interpreters and witnesses of this polyphony of wounded solitudes. After Unknown Brother, the actress Sasha Rau, involved in Papperlapapp by Christoph Marthaler, delivers a second text in the setting of a stage reading.
Distribution
text and read by Sasha Rau
with Marc Bodnar, Charlotte Clamens, Janet Haufler, Bettina Stucky, Jeroen Willems
Production
avec le soutien du Centre national du théâtre, du Centre culturel suisse-Paris et de Pro Helvetia-Fondation suisse pour la Culture