Marcus Lindeen, Marianne Ségol
Memory of Mankind
novembernov 14 – 25
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Thursday november 14
20h00
Friday november 15
20h00
Saturday november 16
18h00
Sunday november 17
16h00
Monday november 18
20h00
Thursday november 21
20h00
Friday november 22
20h00
Saturday november 23
18h00
Sunday november 24
16h00
Monday november 25
20h00
Written and directed by Marcus Lindeen. Conceived by Marcus Lindeen, Marianne Ségol. Dramaturgy and translation Marianne Ségol. Music and sound design Hans Appelqvist. Scenography Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy. Lighting design Diane Guérin. Costumes Charlotte Le Gall. Casting director Naelle Dariya. Stage management David Marin. Sound management Nicolas Brusq. Video and lighting management Dimitri Blin. Production management, administration EPOC productions – Emmanuelle Ossena and Charlotte Pesle Beal. With Jean-Philippe Uzan, Axel Ravier, Sofia Aouine, Driver. Voix Gabriel Dufay, Julien Lewkowicz, Olga Mouak, Nathan Jousn.
Production Compagnie Wild Minds
Coproduction T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National ; Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa ; Le Quai – CDN Angers Pays de la Loire ; Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles) ; Comédie de Caen – CDN de Normandie ; Le Méta – CDN de Poiters Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; Centre Dramatique National Besançon Franche-Comté ; Le Grand T ; Le Lieu unique – Scène nationale de Nantes ; ARPEP Pays de la Loire ; Wiener Festwochen – Freie Republik Wien ; Festival d’Automne Paris
With the support of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
With the support of the Drac Île-de-France – ministère de la Culture
With the support of King’s Fountain
The Wild Minds company is associated with Quai – CDN Angers Pays de la Loire and the Centre dramatique national Besançon Franche-Comté
Marcus Lindeen is associate artist at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and Marianne Ségol is associate artist at META-CDN in Poitiers
The T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National and the Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers and present this show as a co-realisation.
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By reconstituting four perfectly extraordinary, but very real, stories Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol raise questions about the notion of memory. Their unique form of theatre, in which spoken words of a personal nature are exchanged and feed off each other, is scrupulously crafted and philosophical in equal measure.
Following on from La Trilogie des identités, the latest piece by the Swedish author and director Marcus Lindeen and the playwright-translator Marianne Ségol is at the crossroads between documentary theatre and writing at its most intimate. It revolves around an Austrian ceramist's quest to find a way of stocking or storing the story of Humanity, an individual who regularly loses their memory, his wife, a writer, who helps him find it, and a queer archaeologist who puts forward a different way of writing history. By means of an immersive staging, these extraordinary, but very real, journeys are brought to life by non-professional performers. Throughout the course of the show, the audience has the impression of being present during a conversation. What does this piece set out to do? More than anything, it seeks to make us question the notion of memory: how does it shape our own life history? Why is it necessary to forget? And above all: what is actually worth remembering?
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