Talents Adami Théâtre Émilie Rousset et Louise Hémon
Rituel 5 : La Mort
© Rituel 5 : La Mort, Émilie Rousset et Louise Hémon © Ph. Lebruman ©
© Rituel 5 : La Mort, Émilie Rousset et Louise Hémon © Ph. Lebruman ©
© Rituel 5 : La Mort, Émilie Rousset et Louise Hémon © Ph. Lebruman ©
© Rituel 5 : La Mort, Émilie Rousset et Louise Hémon © Ph. Lebruman ©
Design, text, and staging, Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon
Featuring Barbara Chanut, Mohamed El Mazzouji, Anaïs Gournay, Manon Hugny, Damoh Ikheteah, Tom Pezier, Arthur Rémi, Ophélie Ségala
Dramaturgy consultant, Marine Prunier
Lighting, Romain de Lagarde
Cinematographer, Alexandra de Saint Blanquat
SFX Makeup, Amanda Silaen
Video editing, Carole Borne
Music, Émile Sornin
Sound and video, Romain Vuillet and Cristian Sotomayor
General manager, Jérémie Sananes
Director's intern, Elina Martinez
Administration and production, Les Indépendances, Colin Pitrat and Hélène Moulin
Produced by John Corporation
Co-produced by Adami; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In collaboration with Atelier de Paris CDCN
John Corporation has a contract with the Ministry of Culture – Drac Île-de-France and Région Île-de-France
Émilie Rousset is artist in residence at Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise/ Val d'Oise, at Le lieu unique, Nantes and at Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre.
Now it is the turn of Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon to work with eight young performers as part of the Talents Adami Théâtre scheme, hosted for the tenth year running at the Atelier de Paris. With their habitual brand of humour, they dissect beliefs and representations linked to death, rituals and funeral-related practices.
In their Rituels series, they work together, using the real as the basis for their theatrical investigations, to create shows and films that explore the utilisation and rules of symbolic events in our society. In Rituel 5 : La Mort they go out and meet individuals specialising in the death industry : a female coffin designer, a make-up artist for corpses, the female director of a school for undertakers, a specialist working in the field of QR codes for gravestones, and the developer of an application which enables people to communicate with the deceased loved ones. In the company of the young actors and actresses, they share the methodology of their writing, based on collection and collage. Onstage, this documentary material is reinterpreted and reworked in successive layers, thereby going beyond the framework of the real in order to create interplay with the codes of genre-based cinema. Theatre and film coexist in order to create interference between onstage and filmic presence, recreated life and documented life, the dead and the living-dead.
See also
Émilie Rousset, Maya Boquet Reconstitution : Le procès de Bobigny
In a highly original manner, Émilie Rousset and Maya Boquet bring to the stage testimonies and archives arising from a crucial event in the advancement of women's rights. Navigating a path between the fifteen performers, each spectator builds his or her own mental journey in relation to the subject and its ramifications in today's world, but also in terms of the very process of representation itself.
Émilie Rousset, Louise Hémon Rituel 5 : La Mort
Now it is the turn of Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon to work with eight young performers as part of the Talents Adami Théâtre scheme, hosted for the tenth year running at the Atelier de Paris. With their habitual brand of humour, they dissect beliefs and representations linked to death, rituals and funeral-related practices.