cast
Romain Duris

stage direction
Patrice Chéreau and Thierry Thieû Niang

text
Bernard-Marie Koltès

costumes
Caroline de Vivaise

lighting
Bertrand Couderc

sound
Fabrice Naud, Sylvain Copans

hairstyling
Mélanie Pereira

stage manager
Gilbert Morel


production
La Comédie de Valence, CDN Drôme-Ardèche

en coproduction avec
Théâtre de l’Atelier; Centre National de Création et de Diffusion Culturelles de Châteauvallon dans le cadre d’une résidence de création; Maison de la Culture de Nevers et de la Nièvre
Remerciements: Centre Les Baumes

Spectacle présenté en novembre 2010 dans le cadre de « Le Louvre invite Patrice Chéreau, les visages et les corps ».

Patrice Chéreau a déjà été accueilli en résidence à Orléans pour la création de RÊVE D’AUTOMNE de Jon Fosse en novembre 2010.

Texte publié aux Éditions de Minuit

Accueiln
CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre

THE PLAY

The very first time Bernard-Marie Koltès came to see me in 1979, he brought two texts with him: THE NIGHT JUST BEFORE THE FORESTS and BLACK BATTLES WITH DOGS. I didn’t understand the first  and concentrated on the second which I wanted to stage. It was not, as was the first, a long sentence of twenty-five pages where I couldn’t find any door to get access. It is today that we, Thierry Thieû Niang, Roman Duris and I, work on this text.

Death is waiting or this man who is speaking to us, under the appearance of those too smartly dressed bad boys who beat him up. To delay this death, he has to talk, talk again and again to this boy he is speaking to, to add one story to the next, “to hold his attention with all the words he may find”, as Koltès says himself, tale after tale, thousand and one times, like a vertiginous rhapsody. “He talks about everything and about love as one can never talk about, except to an unknown person, as this one, a boy maybe, silent, motionless”. 

Patrice Chéreau.

     
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Events around the show

Carte blanche au Cinéma des Carmes
THU 09 FEB 2012

Onstage talk
THU 16 FEB 2012