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Month: June 2023
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Sharing
It’s important for us to take the time to build things that we can MAKE TOGETHER, so as to make the possibility of ENCOUNTERS to happen. Encounters with others, of course, but encounters with ourselves as well. As a chance to discover what we can SHARE and create together.
Childhood(s)
Les Papavéracées
Collective stage writing
CHILDHOOD(S) [ so, this has to be a manifesto]
Third play of the company, CHILDHOOD(S) is our first collective stage writing. From our own memories - the ones of kids who were born in the middle of the 1980’s - we composed a theatrical selfportrait, as the poem of a whole generation. By doing that, we conquered and discovered unknown words and existences - our own !
A WOMAN
Theatrical variation with the book by Annie Ernaux
© Editions Gallimard (1987)
Second play of the company, A WOMAN is the decisive encounter with Annie Ernaux’s writing. After that, we needed to SAY her words and to DO to the theater field what her words did to literature and to her readers. We had to deconstruct our own tools before rebuilding our own “ place”. For a rehabilitation of ordinary lives and ordinary people.
F**** COUNTRY !
Stage adaptation of the book by Younes Amrani et Stéphane Beaud
© Editions La Découverte (2004)
First play of the company, F**** COUNTRY ! is a crucial experience for Les Papavéracées. It is about honoring a rare writing gesture (the one of Younes Amrani) and the sociological friendship that made it possible (the one of Stéphane Beaud) by inventing a theatrical language that can answer rightfully this raw political situation. Performed more than 80 times, it is still an emergency to hear those words.
Production
Papavéracées Productions, in co production with la Maison du Théâtre d'Amiens, with the support of la DRAC Hauts-de-France, la région Hauts-de-France, le conseil départemental de la Somme, Amiens Métropole.
Created in 2019
Distribution
Duration 1h55
With Karim Abdelaziz (Blanche), Arthur Dumas (the woman with no face), Agathe Fredonnet (the body), Caroline Lerda (the voice), Charlotte Le Bras (the real effect)
Stage director Charlotte Le Bras
Assistant Caroline Lerda
Lighting design Nathan Teulade
Additional musics Rock'n'roll nigger Patti Smith and Metamorphosis 5 Philip Glass
The play
To incorporate Annie Ernaux’s research into the theater field, we confronted ourselves to a drastic deconstruction of our own professional practices (as actors, stage director, light designer). We had to look deep into ourselves to find our singular writing places. From there on, a theatrical reality surfaced, strongly : we called it “scenic subjectiveness”. With it, came the feeling that we were committing a crime and, maybe, “killing theater”.