CLASSE LIBRE, PROMOTION 38, COURS FLORENT PARIS, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 •
CLASSE LIBRE, PROMOTION 38, COURS FLORENT PARIS, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 •
CLASSE LIBRE, PROMOTION 38, COURS FLORENT PARIS, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 •
THE STAR OF CHILDHOOD HAS GUIDED THE THEATRICAL PATH WE HAVE TRAVELED DOWN TOGETHER.
Though its shadows and emotional manifestations are varied and unpredictable, everything we know comes from this world of childhood and fantasy, a lost world we have chosen to conjure up once again to explore on stage with help from several authors from different countries and generations, tales and poems and plays. The common thread of these texts is that all the characters are children!
Portraits of childhood that differ greatly from the touching Epinal print we are accustomed to. Love, misery, sexuality, violence, death, capitalism and religion arise mysteriously out of these “innocent” words and “inoffensive” games in attics and secret gardens. We take this distorting mirror, at once familiar and yet deeply unsettling, and turn it into our playground for one evening.
Performance held at the end of a 120-hour training program with students from the 38th Classe Libre group.
"To create is always to speak about childhood."
- Jean Genet
Credits
Texts by Naum Alves de Sousa, Hans Christian Andersen, Michel Azama, Matthew Barrie, Edward Bond, Marcus Borja, Hilda Hist, William Inge, Sylvain Levey, Angelica Liedel, Maurice Maeterlinck, Fabrice Melquiot, Joël Pommerat, Horacio Quiroga and Tennessee Williams.
Music by Barbara, Marcus Borja, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jacques Ibert, Camille Saint-Saëns, John Tavener and traditional German, Russian, Chinese and American songs.
Staging and musical direction: Marcus Borja
Assistant director and musician: Antoine Maitrias
With
Pauline Briand, Baptiste Carrion-Weiss, Alexandre Costet-Barmada, Théo Christine, Paul Flouret, Eva Lallier, Jiaxin Li, Ivy Lonak, Jeanne Pajon, Alexander Schuster, Louis Seillé, Anna Stanic, Padrig Vion, Tom Wozniczka and Clyde Yeguette
© Photo credit: Diego Bresani