cast
Laurent Cazanave

direction
Claude Régy

text
Tarjei Vesaas, excerpt of the novel  LES OISEAUX translated from Norwegian by Régis Boyer

assistant to the director
Alexandre Barry

scenography
Sallahdyn Khatir

lighting
Rémi Godfroy

sound
Philippe Cachia


production
Les Ateliers Contemporains

coproduction
Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Avec le soutien du CENTQUATRE, établissement artistique de
la Ville de Paris

Accueil
CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre

The novel LES OISEAUX is published by Editions Plein Chant.

THE PLAY

Mattis, a simple mind, lives with his older sister on a farm in Norway. One morning, he goes fishing on a lake, all alone. But the boat is leaking and a struggle with death begins.

Claude Régy is one the France's greatest stage directors. He studied dramatic art with Charles Dullin and directed his first play in 1952. Very soon, he moved away from psychology and naturalism and explored other forms of representation while discovering writers such as Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Peter Handke, Botho Strauss, Jon Fosse, Sarah Kane and working with actors such as Michel Bouquet, Delphine Seyrig, Jeanne Moreau, Bulle Ogier, Valérie Dréville, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Quentin Châtelain and today with young Laurent Cazanave.
His theatre is of great beauty and, neglecting the narrative codes, commits the audience to a poetic and sensorial experience in which the certainties of the nature of reality are collapsing.
Claude Régy stages a chapter of the novel THE BIRDS by Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas and reveals the beauty of young Mattis’ universe. “Sometimes, through the mist, another quality of light appears”.

The CDN is glad to welcome Claude Régy for the first time in Orléans and will organize events around his work as a stage director.

© Brigitte Enguerand

Events around the show
 

Carte blanche au Cinéma des Carmes
JEU 01 DEC 2011

Onstage Talk
VEN 09 DEC 2011
MER 14 DEC 2011
after the show