Laetitia Dosch
HATE Tentative de duo avec un cheval
© HATE © Dorothée Thebert Fillige ©
© HATE © Dorothée Thebert Fillige ©
© HATE © Dorothée Thebert Fillige ©
A show by Laetitia Dosch
Text, Laetitia Dosch, with participation from Yuval Rozman
Directed by Yuval Rozman and Laetitia Dosch
With Laetitia Dosch and Corazon, the horse
Choreographic collaborator and horse coach, ShanJu, and Judith Zagury
Set design, Philippe Quesne
Lighting, David Perez
Sound, Jérémy Conne
Dramaturgical collaboration, Hervé Pons
Collaborations ponctuelles, Barbara Carlotti, Vincent Thomasset
Assistanat à la mise en scène, Lisa Como
Régie générale et lumières, Yann Duclos
Régie son, Yohann Gabillard
Swiss administrative team, Paquis Production / Laure Chapel
French administrative team, AlterMachine / Elisabeth Le Coënt & Camille Hakim Hashemi
A production by Viande hachée du Caire ; Viande hachée des Grisons
A coproduction with Théâtre de Vidy – Lausanne ; La Bâtie – Festival de Genève ; TNB – Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique (Rennes) ; École-Atelier Shanju (Gimel) ; La rose des vents – Scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve-d'Ascq ; Le phénix, scène nationale (Valenciennes) ; MA Scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard ; ActOral – festival international des arts et des écritures contemporaines (Marseille) ; Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With financial support of the city of Lausanne, of Canton de Vaud, DRAC Île‑de‑France, de la Société suisse des auteurs, du Fonds SACD Théâtre,
of SPEDIDAM, de la Loterie Romande, Migros Pourcent culturel, de la fondation Ernst Göhner, de la Fondation Nestlé pour les Arts
Avec le soutien (via résidence) de Montévidéo (Marseille), Istituto Svizzero de Rome
Thanks to Christophe Fiat, Noémie Ksickova, Nicolas Fleury, Tugdual Tremel, Solène Livran, Baladine, Brian, Danaé, Dariuch, Epops, Isabelle, Mamé, Micky, Papé, Séverine, Shantih, Vincent, Voltaire, Yolande, Yova, and all humans and animals that spent time at ShanJu
First performed on 5 June 2018 at Théâtre de Vidy – Lausanne
« It is not a dialogue, but two monologues, one for the woman and one for the horse ». In the midst of this unexpected duo, the actress and director Laetitia Dosch, in close collaboration with Judith Zagury and Yuval Rozman, contrasts the darkness of an interior monologue with the beauty of the animal.
Outside of her career as an actress in cinema and in theatre, Laetitia Dosch, carries out research of a very personal, original nature. From her first text Le Bac à sable (‘the sand-pit’), written whilst still a student at the Manufacture de Lausanne, to her most recent show, Un Album, inspired by the the Swiss comic Zouc, this unique young lady takes great pleasure in going off the beaten track. On the last track she took, she met... a horse. In this new show, HATE, the actress performs, naked, soliloquises and dialogues with a horse, a living being in whom she confides in a way which is neither naïve nor void of pudeur. In an attempt to try to understand and come to terms with the chaos of the era we live in, and also to do away with, once and for all, this feeling of power which prompts us towards the destruction of those we deem to be inferior to us, nature and animals alike, she chooses to live with a horse. The relationship she develops with the horse is an egalitarian one, but it is also a relationship with the Other - the partner, the weak one, nature. In short, a respectful relationship. Switching from dainty ditty to hard-hitting rap, from intimate account to political engagement, from time passing to time frozen by the beauty of images, and from joyful soul-searching to violent incomprehension, HATE is also the improbable but altogether possible invention of an intense love story between a woman and a horse. Is such a relation possible - in the absence of any form of human domination, manipulation, or animal savagery? What about love and sharing: can they bring the odd bit of poetry? Come what may, Laetitia Dosch mounts her horse, raises her sword into the air and plunges headlong into this epic quest for utopia.
Estimated running time : 1h15
Unsuitable for audience members under the age of 13 years old