Gilberte Tsaï

A Night at the Library

Archive 2005

Theatre

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Text, Jean-Christophe Bailly
Direction, Gilberte Tsaï
Music, Anne Fischer
Costumes, Françoise Luro and Cidàlia da Costa
Light, Hervé Audibert
With Olivier Cruveiller, Jean-François Perrier, Violaine Schwartz, Clément Victor
Centre dramatique national de Montreuil Production
Co-presented by le Festival d’Automne à Paris
Coproduction with Teatro Due di Parma
With the support of l’Institut Mémoire de l’Edition Contemporaine / Abbaye d’Ardenne
With the Artistic participation of Jeune Théâtre National
Thanks to Paris Bibliothèques

One complains of having few readers; another longs to know its own ending; yet another wonders about the world beyond the library’s dusty bookshelves. In Gilberte Tsai’s play, a sort of “waking dream”, books are given the gift of gab – and the spectator gets to eavesdrop. Performed in the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, the play takes a troubling look at a world without people, without readers.