theater
| salle modulable | running time 3 hr including intermission |
wednesday 11 january 2012 at 19 h 30
thursday 12 january 2012 at 19 h 30
Ivanov Re/Mix
after Anton Tchekhov – Armel Roussel
There is absolutely no doubt, the director Armel Roussel is in complete osmosis with the hero of Ivanov, the play. The piece he has created, based on Chekhov’s Ivanov, is an intimate face to face confrontation between a theatrical character and a contemporary artist. And what is said onstage is, as it happens, quite relevant to us. Armel Roussel explains: “It’s strange, we rarely speak about the meaning of what we do, even less about who we are. As if we were afraid of something, perhaps of going mad? And yet I am sure that all of us carry this question, this anxiety inside of us – and that it might be good to speak to each other about it … Why do I need to understand everything? It’s like love. I don’t understand much about that, how about you?” Ivanov would have said pretty much the same thing, he, who once grown, looks back at the life he has lived and can no longer bear, trying to run away from it into drunkenness, conversations of no interest and one night stands. The famous Russian playwright understood much of the human soul. Ivanov Re/Mix speaks to us, disturbs us with its scorching relevance.
Thursday 12 January on performance evening / admission free
FEDEPSY conference with the artists and Jean Pierre Adjedj
in partnership with F.E.D.E.P.S.Y and the École Psychanalytique de Strasbourg
technical direction, lighting Nathalie Borlée / assistant to the director Julien Jaillot / makeup consultant ZaZa Da Fonseca / costume consultant Vanja Maria Godée / seamstress Hélène Honhon / musical adaptation Philippe Grand’Henry, Raphaël De Backer / with Selma Alaoui, Arnaud Anson, Yoann Blanc, Nathalie Borlée, Lucie Debay, Philippe Grand’Henry, Julien Jaillot, Sofie Kokaj, Nicolas Luçon, Vincent Minne, Armel Roussel, Sophie Sénécaut, Uiko Watanabe
Production Armel Roussel / eutopia3. Coproduction the Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Brussels / Théâtre de la Place, Liège / Le Manège, Mons - Centre dramatique / the Maison de la Culture of Amiens / the Théâtre du Grütli, Geneva. With support from the Ministry of the French community Wallonie-Brussels – Theatre department / of Wallonie-Brussels Théâtre/Danse (WBT/D). Armel Roussel / eutopia3 is in residence at the Theatre Les Tanneurs.
