Text
Virgil
Direction
Frédéric Constant
Assistant
Sophie Affholder
Cast
Véronique Affholder
Amélie Gonin
Geoffroy Guerrier
Guillaume Junot
Jean Lescot
Catherine Pietri
Pierre Poirot
Christophe Vandevelde
Freely based on Virgil's AENEID
Dramaturgy
Xavier Maurel
Artistic collaboration
Catherine Pietri
Scenography
Denis Fruchaud assisted by Corinne Forsans
Costumes
Muriel Delamotte et Anne Deschaintres
Lighting design
Christophe Pitoiset
Sound
Joris Chrétien
Stage manager
Benoit André
Lighting manager
Jérôme Allart
produced by
CDN Orléans/Loiret/ Centre, CDR de Tours, Equinoxe – Scène Nationale de Châteauroux, Les Affinités Électives – Vendôme
new production co-produced by and rehearsed at
CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre
play published by Editions Actes Sud-Papiers |
THE PLAY
The tale of the AENEID is more than a little reminiscent of Homer’s ILIAD and ODYSSEY. It tells the story of the adventures of Aeneas, a Trojan survivor who flees the city in flames in the aftermath of the genocide of his people. A journey of several years takes him to one shore of the Mediterranean and on to another, from Carthage to the underworld, all the way to Italy, where he finally founds a prosperous city. In Carthage, Aeneas meets Dido, a queen in exile.
Originally trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, Frédéric Constant has anchored his work as a director in the Centre Region, where he founded his company, LES AFFINITES ELECTIVES in 1997. Their first production TITANIC CITY laid the foundations of a collective work they still continue to do today. Distancing itself from Virgil’s work, ENEAS, NEUF will be a kind of “Road Theatre” in which roaming, fixed fights, the impossibility to return, the weight of duty, will find contemporary resonances.
It will mark the return of Rémi De Vos, this time as an actor, in this show produced in residence at CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre.
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© Sabine Villiard
Events around the show
Carte blanche at Cinéma des Carmes
MON 11 JAN 2010
O’Brother by Joel and Ethan Coen (2000)
7, rue des carmes - reduced price
Onstage talk
WED 13 JAN 2010
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