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L'IMAGE has been performen at the CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre from September 22 2011 to October 22 2011.
On tour in 2010-2011 :
From January 28 to January 30 2011 at the Halle aux grains, Scène nationale de Blois, within the festival « Temps divers »
In Paris from April 12 to April 16 2011 at the Ménagerie de verre within the festival « Étrange cargo ».
Created in April 2006 for the Beckett Centenary Festival in Dublin (Ireland) with actress Anne Brochet and dancer Damien Jalet, THE IMAGE was recreated in Iceland (Reykjavik) in March 2007 within the Pourquoi Pas ? Festival. At the invitation of dancer and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir, it was presented within the Festival Les Grandes Traversées in Bordeaux, in October 2007. In september 2008, the show was recreated with the actress Lou Doillon within the Crossing the Line Festival at FIAF (New York).
Running time : 45"
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Concept
Arthur Nauzyciel
Recitant
Lou Doillon
Music
Mileece
Dance
Damien Jalet
Set design
Giulio Lichtner
production
Centre Dramatique National/Orléans/Loiret/Centre, Compagnie 41751 |
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
The project is the "bare bone" production of a quite unknown and very short story by Samuel Beckett. THE IMAGE, one sentence only, of nine pages, written in French in the fifties tells the remembrance of a strange idylle, a strange encounter, in the instant of what could be an agony. We propose an "improved" reading, a setting in space, a kind of performance, with an actress, Lou Doillon, and a dancer, Damien Jalet. We also work with scenographer Giulio Lichtner.
Within four days this work is recreated in each city where we perform. In the aim of meeting other artists, we like to invite local musicians or other artists to participate to the performance. For this recreation in New York, the composer Mileece accepted our invitation. The idea is then to gather artists around this sentence, everyone taking it, successively, through his own atistic expression.
Arthur Nauzyciel
ABOUT THE IMAGE
What does Samuel Beckett write in THE IMAGE ? We may risk more than one response. He describes a picture. It would be ridiculous to try and describe it here again. In one sentence, a ten pages long sentence, with no punctuation except an initial capital letter and a final dot, Beckett writes with words what the narrator sees with his eyes. The narrator comments with his language what he sees, Beckett captions with his words what the reader does not see. As a whole it makes one literary object, one musical score and one movement : andante ! In THE IMAGE, Beckett inhabits the space of his language. He is in and out. Whatever we consider, be it the text or the picture, Beckett is in then out. External as a man, internal as a character, he is successively a landscape or simultaneously an element. He is also tree, wind, hill, dog. Dare we say that Samuel Beckett is in each and every word of THE IMAGE. By playing the vibratory string of his only sentence Beckett renders altogether all ranges of perceptions through which our eyes see and translate images. He creates a language, he makes a gift. His text is an idea and poetry at the same time.
Olivier Séguret
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Links
Download: production file
Read the article published in New York Times (22/09/08)
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