Julien Gosselin
Joueurs | Mao II | Les Noms de Don DeLillo
© Les Noms © Simon Gosselin ©
© Les Noms © Simon Gosselin ©
© Mao II © Simon Gosselin ©
© Les Noms © Simon Gosselin ©
© Joueurs © Simon Gosselin ©
Adapted and directed by Julien Gosselin
Translation, Marianne Véron
With Rémi Alexandre, Guillaume Bachelé, Adama Diop, Joseph Drouet, Denis Eyriey, Antoine Ferron, Noémie Gantier, Carine Goron, Alexandre Lecroc-Lecerf, Frédéric Leidgens, Caroline Mounier, Victoria Quesnel, Maxence Vandevelde
Set design, Hubert Colas
Musical creation, Rémi Alexandre, Guillaume Bachelé, Maxence Vandevelde
Lighting creation, Nicolas Joubert
Video creation, Jérémie Bernaert, Pierre Martin
Sound creation, Julien Feryn
Costume design, Caroline Tavernier
Hand props, Guillaume Lepert
Stage manager and technical assistance, Antoine Guilloux
Assistant stage manager, Guillaume Lepert, Simon Haratyk
Master electrician, Arnaud Godest, Fanny Walser
Sound HF engineer, Mélissa Jouvin
Assistant costumer, Angélique Legrand
Technical assistance , Frédéric Vienot
Dramaturgy intern, Juliette de Beauchamp
Costume intern, Sophie Miquet
Light intern, Mickaël Perissinotto
Technical intern, Nina Chiron
Administration, production, distribution, Eugénie Tesson
Logistics, Emmanuel Mourmant
Administration assistant, Paul Lacour-Lebouvier
Technical director, Nicolas Ahssaine
A Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur production
A coproduction by Kaidong Coopération franco-taiwanaise pour les arts vivants ; Le Phénix, scène nationale (Valenciennes) ; National Performing Arts Center – National Theater & Concert Hall (Taiwan) ; Théâtre National de Strasbourg ; Festival d’Avignon ; MC2: Maison de la culture de Grenoble ; Théâtre du Nord – Centre Dramatique National Lille / Tourcoing / Hauts-de-France ; International Theater Amsterdam ; TNB – Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique (Rennes) ; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg ; Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy ; Le Quartz – scène nationale de Brest ; La Filature, Scène nationale (Mulhouse) ; Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National
With special support from DGCA / DRAC Hauts-de-France and Région Hauts-de-France
First performed on 7 July 2018 as part of the Festival d’Avignon
In partnership with France Culture
After Houellebecq and Bolaño, the director Julien Gosselin continues his scenic exploration of the literature of today and violence in our societies. Based on three novels by the American writer Don DeLillo, this latest production echoes the history of contemporary terrorism.
In 2014, the impact of Particules élémentaires brought Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur, a young collective lead by Julien Gosselin, into the spotlight. In 2016, with 2666, an adaptation of Roberto Bolaño monumental novel, the director confirmed his taste for torrent-like shows, non theatre-based texts and all-embracing, immersive formats in which music, video and lighting engage spectators in a dazzling aesthetic experience. These productions also saw him digging deeper into themes which have become an integral part of his work – literature, violence, and the ways in which human beings become victims of the underground movements that history and society at large produce. These same themes come to a head in the novels by the Amercian writer Don DeLillo. The three novels Players (1977), Names (1982) and Mao II (1991) – a title borrowed from one of Andy Warhol’s “multiples” - draw upon the inextricable links between individual destiny and collective history. For Gosselin, they make up “a history of terrorism, each in its own way”, and, at times, a wholly premonitory one at that. But they also constitute the basis for a new form: one that is both sum, and sum of its constituent part at the same time. To be discovered separately, or as a whole.
––––––
You can choose to see the performances:
- Complete works: Sat. and Sun. 13h30 (24€ to 60€)
- In three separate evenings at the complete work's fee (24€ to 60€)
- You can also choose to see only one performance of the three (12€ to 30€)
- You can choose to see different parts, according to individual choice, and under no obligation to see all three.
––––––
Estimated running time:
Complete work: 9h10 - spectators can come and go freely during the performance
The Players: 3h00 | Learn more about The Players
Mao II: 3h10 | Learn more about Mao II
The Names: 3h00 | Learn more about The Names
In the same place
Kornél Mundruczó, Proton Theatre Parallax
The Hungarian film and theatre director Kornél Mundruczó has always been a shrewd observer of the way contemporary society has transformed family structures, as shown in his films White God (2015), a prize-winner at Cannes, Pieces of A Woman (2019) and Evolution (2021). In Parallax, he investigates the notion of identity, at the crossroads between social affirmation and area of freedom.
Daria Deflorian La Vegetariana
By means of a family portrait, The Vegetarian, a masterpiece of South Korean literature by author Han Kang – Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 – charts a dizzying map of violence, be it physical, psychological, or political. Tapping into the the power of the text itself, Daria Deflorian and her onstage companions tease from out of it the stuff of a theatrical elixir.
Animal Architecte Les Forces vives
This show is about how a life can be invented, understood and told at the same time. And about how Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908, was both author and chronicler of her existence. What kind of energy, what type of combativity does freedom imply? In Les Forces vives, Animal Architecte brings us a fascinating and astonishing fresco of the writer's journey.