A single place – a hotel room – for three stories that cross and intertwine: that of two sisters, Wolfgang's and Susann's. The play imagined by Guillaume Vincent seems like a script that would be used to do theatre. “A stage machine” as he calls it, which undoubtedly found its inspiration in the film-makers he particularly likes (Bergman, Bresson, Buñuel and Fassbinder) and plunges us into a universe where fantasy and reality are closely entangled, where the past and the present sometimes merge, where the living and the dead talk to us without worrying about their status. A fantastic evasion that plays with the reversal of situations, while relying on a dramatic framework peopled with small pebbles that permit the spectators to follow this twisting path, like children entering the world of fairy-tales. Guillaume Vincent chose to develop his story, the setting of a hotel room, a place that we pass through without really stopping, a place bearing the memory of those who were there before us and who, perhaps, like ghosts, may reappear. So, in this imaginary hotel somewhere in old Havana or Shanghai in the 1930's, in South America or today's Russia, strangeness is acceptable. We hear stories about family, sisters and father, marriage and separation, love and disaffection, hopes and failures that carry us along in a fascinating rondo, that of the suspense of life. JFP
Distribution
direction Guillaume Vincent
dramaturgy Marion Stoufflet
scenography James Brandily
assistant to the scenography Émilie Marc, Alice Roux
lighting Nicolas Joubert
sound Olivier Pasquet, Géraldine Foucault
video Thomas Cottereau
costumes Lucie Durand
puppetry Bérangère Vantusso
with Francesco Calabrese, Émilie Incerti Formentini, Florence Janas, Pauline Lorillard, Nicolas Maury, Susann Vogel
and the voice of Nikita Gouzovsky
Production
production Cie MidiMinuit
coproduction Festival d'Avignon, La Colline - National Theater Paris, CICT Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, La Comédie de Reims, National Dramatic Centre of Orléans/Loiret/Centre, Théâtre du Beauvaisis / Espace Jean Legendre Théâtre de Compiègne National Stage of Oise, Ircam-Centre Pompidou (Paris), Théâtre des 13 Vents National Dramatic Centre of Montpellier, Festival Delle Colline Torinesi (Turin), Le Parvis National Stage Tarbes Pyrénées, Le Mail Scène culturelle de Soissons
with the support of the Région Île-de-France, DRAC Île-de-France and the Institut français, and with the help for creation of dramatical texts of the National Center of Theater
with the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre national
Through its support, the Adami helps the Festival d'Avignon to get involved in coproductions.