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with the actors of the Academy
Vlad Chirita
Lahcen Elmazouzi
Eye Haidara
Hyunjoo Lee
Tommy Milliot
Nico Rogner
Isaïe Sultan
adaptation, direction, set costumes
Éric Vigner
textes
LA PLACE ROYALE de Pierre Corneille et GUANTANAMO de Frank Smith
lighting
Pascal Noël
dramaturg
Sabine Quiriconi
choreography
Béatrice Massin
assistants to the director
Tommy Milliot, Vlad Chirita
assistant to the set
Nicolas Gueniau
assistant to the costumes and costumes workshop
Sophie Hoarau
photography
Alain Fonteray
production
CDDB – Théâtre de Lorient, CDN; CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre; La Comédie de Valence, CDN Drôme-Ardèche; La Comédie de Reims, CDN
Thanks to the CENTQUATRE, établissement artistique de la Ville de Paris
With the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National
The text of LA PLACE ROYALE is the last edition revised by the author and published by Augustin Courbé in 1682.
The text of GUANTANAMO is published by Éditions du Seuil.
creation/coproduction
Show rehearsed at the CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre
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THE PLAY
In LA PLACE ROYALE, one of Corneille’s few comedies, Alidor loves Angélique, but does not wish to renounce his liberty by marrying her. He imagines to “give” his mistress to his best friend. The author Frank Smith has composed GUANTANAMO based on interrogations of prisoners suspected of being terrorists and imprisoned in the US detention camp in Cuba. From LA PLACE ROYALE to GUANTANAMO, it is on language’s scene that the traps of manipulation and of power built up or get foiled.
In 2010, Eric Vigner, director of the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, created the Academy, a laboratory of theatre gathering seven young foreign actors and French actors of foreign origins (Morocco, Mali, Rumania, Belgium, South Korea, Germany, Israel). The Acadamy will be in residence in Orléans in October to create GUANTANAMO. Both plays are performed the same night. During this travel from one century to another, from the verses of Corneille to the incisive writing of Frank Smith, the friction of the linguistic, historic, human and social differences opens spaces in which our imagination may circulate in unexpected ways.
Eric Vigner has already presented DÉBRAYAGE, OTHELLO and SEXTETT at the CDN in 2008 and 2009.
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© Alain Fonteray
Events around the show
The Academy in Orléans
The residence of the Academy at the CDN will be the occasion of encounters and workshops.
Carte blanche au Cinéma des Carmes
THU 10 NOV 2011
Onstage Talk
FRI 18 NOV 2011
WED 23 NOV 2011
after the performance
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