Luc Bondy
Les Chaises
of Eugène Ionesco
© Installation de Tadashi Kawamata,Chapelle Saint-Louis de la SalpetrièreFestival d’Automne à Paris 1997 ©
Les Chaises by Eugène Ionesco
Direction, Luc Bondy
Set Designer,light, Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Costumes, Eva Desseker
Dramaturgy, Dieter Sturm
Sound, music, André Serré
Make up, Hair dressing, Cécile Kretschmar
Artistic collaboration, Jeff Layton
Video, Thierry Aveline
Direction Assistant, Roch Leibovici
Set Designer Assistants, Claudia Jenatsch, Anette Hirsch
Light Assistant, Jean-Luc Chanonat
Sound Assistant, Pierre Routin
Make up, Karunayadhaj Noï
Hands Props, Laurent Boulanger
Set construction, ateliers du Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne and Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
Direction Trainee, Pénélope Biessy
With Micha Lescot, Dominique Reymond, Dominique Reymond, Roch Leibovici
Production Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Coproduction Equinoxe, scène nationale de Châteauroux ; Wiener Festwochen
Corealisation Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Adami
With the support of Leenaards Foundation
Thanks to Botho Strauss
Partnership with France Inter
The text is published by Éditions Gallimard, collection « Folio ».
Luc Bondy stages The Chairs, one of Eugène Ionesco’s most radical plays. In this tragic farce, two characters who seem stuck in a repetitive existance decide to impart humanity with an ultimate message. They invite guests who will sit on chairs on stage. The play reflects on the nature of theatrical performance, and brings to light the limits of language in an absurdist world.