It all begins with a disappearance: that of a woman, Carlotta, who takes with her a movement we'll never see again, voices we'll never get to hear. This irreversible loss and the mounting sense of absence it causes lead to a new gesture: writing. The question “Where are you?” can no longer be uttered, so the writer decides to bare his soul to the one who can see through him: the priestess, the one who sings and dances, who lives outside of time. To appease the dead and soothe the living, they come together to the banks of shadows. There, animals and men congregate, songs become wild, the keys of a piano hoot like owls, and the gaze of a buzzard awakens a child's fear. Possessed and metamorphosed, Marie Vialle and Pascal Quignard keep trading places, and together they remember those that were lost, explore sorrows and primitive areas where language is no longer just articulated, music just made of sound, where day and night can no longer be used as points of reference. Through dreams and in darkness, writer and actress awaken senses that memory may have forgotten but that the heart recognises: they come from an alien place, from a time before there was light.
Distribution
Text Pascal Quignard
Direction Pascal Quignard, Marie Vialle
Design stage and costumes Chantal de La Coste
Lights Jean-Claude Fonkenel
Sound Pierre Avia
Masks Cécile Kretschmar
Voice coaching Dalila Khatir
Birds trainer Tristan Plot
Sound and vidéo management Hugues Le Chevrel
With Pascal Quignard, Marie Vialle
Production
Production compagnie Sur le bout de la langue, Anahi
Co-production Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre Olympia Centre dramatique régional de Tours, Le Liberté Scène nationale de Toulon, Pôle Arts de la Scène - Friche La Belle de Mai (Marseille), Equinoxe Scène nationale de Châteauroux, Festival Terres de Paroles, Le Parvis Scène nationale de Tarbes, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon
With the support of Drac Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Spedidam
With the help of CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Bois de l'Aune (Aix-en-Provence)