2.30pm // Reading of Beginners by Tim Crouch translated by Catherine Hargreaves
Beginners tells the story of three families trapped in a waterlogged holiday cottage over summer. The children are bored. The adults are down the pub. So far so normal. An exquisite, funny and moving story that reminds us that the adult we’ll be and the child we were stay with us wherever we go.
Beginners is published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the Oberon Modern Plays series
Catherine Hargreaves is a director, actress, translator and artistic co-director of the company les 7 sœurs, an associate company of the MC2 in Grenoble where she will direct Back to reality in 2024, a bilingual play co-written with Adèle Gascuel. In 2017/2018, she researched Tim Crouch’s writing as an associate of the TNG-CDN in Lyon and directed An Oak Tree, I, Malvolio and I, Peaseblossom. She translated Beginners, the I, Shakespeare plays (co-translated with Adèle Gascuel), An Oak tree, and Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel by Tim Crouch; I do believe in monsters, Melissa Bubnic (co translated with Adelaïde Pralon), The wonderful world of Dissocia and Realism, Anthony Neilson, and War and breakfast, Mark Ravenhill.
Based onBeginners by Tim Crouch Translated by Catherine Hargreaves A reading directed by Julie Moulier with the Chartreuse actor-reader group, Charly Breton, Béla Czuppon,Margot Madec, Aurélie Turlet and the child readers, Johan Bourges, Victoria Manfrini Tondre, Naìtché Mourles and Jeanne Quadri.
Production
Production Chartreuse-CNES Villeneuve lez Avignon Coproduction Maison Antoine-Vitez, la SCH Sélection Suisse en Avignon, DeAuteurs, ETC Caraïbe Festival d’Avignon, Comédie de Caen-CDN de Normandie
Please arrive at the venue 45 minutes before the start of the performance. Please note that parking spaces and the nearest bus stop are a 10-minute walk away. We advise you to arrive early, as we do not accept latecomers once the performance has started.