Émilie Rousset, Louise Hémon
Rituel 5 : La Mort
novembernov 5 – 8
© Ph. Lebruman ©
Tuesday november 5
20h00
Wednesday november 6
20h00
Thursday november 7
20h00
Friday november 8
20h00
Conceived, written and directed by Émilie Rousset, Louise Hémon. With Aymen Bouchou, Barbara Chanut, Anaïs Gournay, Manon Hugny, Damoh Ikheteah, Tom Pezier, Arthur Rémi, Ophélie Ségala. Dramaturgical consultant Marine Prunier. Lighting Romain de Lagarde. Music Émile Sornin. Chief cameraman Alexandra de Saint Blanquat. SFX make-up Amanda Silaen. Video editing Carole Borne. Sound and video engineers Romain Vuillet et Cristian Sotomayor. Stage manager Jérémie Sananes. Lighting engineer Ludovic Rivière. Assistant director Elina Martinez. Administration and production Les Indépendances, Colin Pitrat, Hélène Moulin.
Production John Corporation
Coproduction Adami ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
As part of the Talents Adami Théâtre opération
in partnership with l’Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique national
John Corporation is subsidised by the Drac Île-de-France – ministère de la Culture and by the Île-de-France region
Émilie Rousset is artist in residence at Points communs – Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise, Lieu unique – Scène nationale de Nantes and 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.