Julien Gosselin
Le Père
© Le Père © Simon Gosselin ©
Adaptation, stage design and et directed by, Julien Gosselin
Based on the novel L’Homme incertain by Stéphanie Chaillou (published by Éditions Alma)
With Laurent Sauvage
Lighting design, Nicolas Joubert
Video design, Pierre Martin
Musical design, Guillaume Bachelé
Sound design, Julien Feryn
A Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur production
A coproduction with TNT – Théâtre national de Toulouse ; La Comédie de Béthune ; and Théâtre d’Arles
In association with MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from Montévidéo (Marseille)
First performed on 7 November 2015 at TNT – Théâtre national de Toulouse
In partnership with France Culture
A poetic performance for one actor, Le Père (‘the father’) resembles an intimist counterpart to the monumental Don DeLillo trilogy that director Julien Gosselin will also be presenting at the Festival d’Automne. The show invites us to discover a text which has the visceral purity of a song.
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Running time: 1h15
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