Text
Dennis Cooper
Direction
Gisèle Vienne
Cast
Jonathan Capdevielle
Based on a short story by Dennis Cooper
Dramaturgy and adaptation
Dennis Cooper
Translation
Emmelene Landon
Music
Peter Rehberg (musique originale) et El Mundo Frio de Corrupted
Lighting design
Patrick Riou
Costume design
Stephen O’Malley et Jean-Luc Verna
Puppet makers
Gisèle Vienne et Dorothéa Vienne Pollak
Make up
Jean-Luc Verna et Rebecca Flores
Costumes made by
Dorothéa Vienne Pollak, Marino Marchand et Babeth Martin
Ventriloquist coach
Michel Dejeneffe
With the voices of
Catherine Robbe-Grillet et Serge Ramon
Production developed in collaboration with the performer
produced by
DACM, Le Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort within the "accueil-studio" residency program and Centro Parraga de Murcia
With the support of la Ménagerie de Verre within the Studiolab program.
The DACM company receives funding from Drac Rhône-Alpes/Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Région Rhône-Alpes, Conseil Général de l’Isère and la Ville de Grenoble; also from Culturesfrance for its foreign tours.
Administration: Bureau Cassiopée
With the help of the technical crew of Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest
Presented by CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre in partnership with the 108/Maison Bourgogne and l'École Supérieure d’Art et de Design d’Orléans (IAV)
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THE PLAY
JERK is an imaginary, funny and somber reconstruction of the crimes committed by American serial killer Dean Corill who, with the help of two teenagers, David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed tow dozen boys in the state of Texas in the mid-1970s. Dennis Cooper’s script is staged in the form of a solo for a puppeteer. Unabashedly mixing sex and violence in a style worthy of the gore aesthetics, JERK follows the legacy of the handheld puppet theatre repertory, traditionally geared toward the performance of violent, transgressive subjects.
Gisèle Vienne has been collaborating with American writer Dennis Cooper for a few years on works that displace our perception of the real, in which fantasies and reality become one, in which the performers interact with the artificial bodies of dolls and mannequins, thus creating a sense of the uncanny.
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Photographer Alain Monot © Jerk 2008
Press :
- Télérama Sortir Avril 2009
- Elle Avril 2008
- Libération Mars 2008
- Les Inrockuptibles Mars 2008
- Le Monde Mars 2008
- La Tribune de Lyon Novembre 2007
- Lyon Capitale Novembre 2007
- Elle Novembre 2007
- Le Télégramme Février 2007
- Les Inrockuptibles Février-Mars 2007
Events around the show
Carte blanche at Cinéma des Carmes
MON 14 DEC 2009
Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe de Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (2009)
Onstage talk
WED 09 DEC 2009
Dialogue between
Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (P.O.L) & Marie Darrieussecq
SAT 12 DEC 2009 6.30pm
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