Three actors on a stage, getting ready to play a game of princes and princesses. But the prince was born ugly, and of the two princesses living in the nearby kingdom, one is beautiful and stupid, the other ugly and incredibly smart. Quite the dilemma indeed! How to go about adapting Charles Perrault's fairy tale, Riquet with the Tuft, today? The text, written by Antoine Herniotte, plays with the stigmatisations and misadventures of the figures of the scapegoat, the head of the class, and the beauty queen. Their successive encounters force them to face the difference between the appearance and the essence of things.For love to blossom, they will have to understand the other, not as he or she is, but as he or she has the potential to be, because everything is projection. See for instance the white paper wall that serves as a canvas for the painting, live, of an ever-changing set. Riquet remains at its core a fairy tale, but a modern one, meant for all audiences, a tale whose three central figures have to master their fate to choose their own future. Its resonance in our society so influenced by more-than-ever normative media is particularly welcome.
RIQUET
“My lovely princesses. Among all the princes who will come from all the kingdoms of our kingdom, there will be one. That one will think nothing of who you are, of what others say you are, neither in good or in bad. He will think nothing of it. He will be like bewitched by the knowledge of what he could become if he stayed by your side. For each of you, there will be such a one. One of whom you will think nothing, nothing of who he is or of what others say he is, neither in good or in bad. You will think nothing of it. You will be like bewitched by the knowledge of what you could become if you stayed by his side.” Excerpt from Antoine Herniotte's Riquet.
Distribution
Text and sound Antoine Herniotte
Direction Laurent Brethome
Assistant director Anne-Lise Redais
Scenography and costumes Rudy Sabounghi
Lights David Debrinay
Live painting Louis Lavedan
Music Antoine Herniotte, Emmanuelle Rossi
Artistic collaboration Joël Jouanneau
With Dominique Gubser, François Jaulin, Louis Lavedan, Yasmina Remil
Production
Production La Fabrique de Dépaysement
Executive production Les Scènes du Jura Scène nationale
Coproduction Théâtre Am Stram Gram Centre international de création pour l'enfance et la jeunesse de Genève, Château Rouge Scène conventionnée d'Annemasse, dans le cadre du projet transfrontalier La Fabrique de Dépaysement soutenu par le programme INTE RREG IV A France-Suisse 2007/2013 cofinancé par le Fonds européen de développement régional et la Confédération suisse, Scènes de Pays dans les Mauges Scène conventionnée Artistes en territoire, Le Menteur volontaire
With the support of the Spedidam