Le deuil sied à Électre

Fascinated by the figure of Electra, Gwenaël Morin has chosen Eugene O’Neill’s eponymous play to end his cycle “Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont”. In Mourning Becomes Electra, the American playwright takes on the myth of the Atreidae—from the murder of Agamemnon to Orestes’s vengeance—and transposes it to the United States, after the Civil War, in a world that contains the seeds of today’s America. Gwenaël Morin says he’s always been fascinated by scenes of crisis—those moments where everything flips. Finding in O’Neill’s work enough to quench his thirst for drama, he throws himself wholeheartedly into this world whose fragile, virtuoso architecture is based on the psychology of its characters. Playing on the closeness between the words mourning and morning, the director reflects on grief and on the secret promise of an upcoming dawn it holds.

With Fabien-Aïssa Busetta, Virginie Colemyn, Julian Eggerick, Barbara Jung, Grégoire Monsaingeon

Text Eugene O’Neill
Traduction Louis-Charles Sirjacq (L’Arche éditeur)
Adaptation, direction and set design Gwenaël Morin
Lighting Philippe Gladieux
Direction assistance Canelle Breymayer
Set management Loïc Even
Administration, production, touring Emmanuelle Ossena, Charlotte Pesle Beal - EPOC productions

Production Compagnie Gwenaël Morin / Théâtre Permanent
Coproduction Festival d’Avignon, Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy, TNBA CDN de Bordeaux Nouvelle Aquitaine, Théâtre Olympia CDN de Tours, Les Célestins-Théâtre de Lyon, Théâtre de la Commune-CDN d’Aubervilliers, Théâtre du Bois de l’Aulne (Aix-en-Provence)
Support la Ménagerie de Verre (Paris)
Residencies Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy, La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Festival d’Avignon, Maison Jean Vilar
The Gwenaël Morin / Théâtre Permanent company is funded by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.