Sébastien Kheroufi
Par les villages
decemberdec 13 – 22
januaryjan 22 – 26
© Christophe Raynaud de Lage ©
© Christophe Raynaud de Lage ©
© Christophe Raynaud de Lage ©
Friday december 13
20h
Saturday december 14
20h
Sunday december 15
17h
Thursday december 19
20h
Friday december 20
20h
Saturday december 21
20h
Sunday december 22
17h
Wednesday january 22
20h
Thursday january 23
20h
Friday january 24
20h
Saturday january 25
18h
Sunday january 26
16h
Directed by Sébastien Kheroufi. Text by Peter Handke. Translation from the German by Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt - Éditions Gallimard. With Amine Adjina, Anne Alvaro, Dounia Boukersi or Bilaly Dicko alternating, Casey, Marie-Sohna Condé or Gwenaëlle Martin alternating, Hayet Darwich, Ulysse Dutilloy-Liegeois, Benjamin Grangier, Reda Kateb, Minouche Nihn Briot and Sofia Medjoubi or Miya Josephine alternating. Dramaturg Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois. Stage manager Clémence Roudil. Set design Zoé Pautet, Sébastien Kheroufi. Costumes Cloé Robin. Lighting design Enzo Cescatti. Sound engineer Simon Muller. Photographs Léo Aupetit. With the artistic collaboration of Laurent Sauvage. With the kind support of the author Peter Handke. With the participation of an amateur choir. Choir coordinator Laure Marion. With the exceptional presence of La Relève Bariolée, accompanied by Nebil Daghsen and Léa Mécili.
Produced by Compagnie La Tendre Lenteur; Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry-CDN du Val-de-Marne in association with Sébastien Kheroufi.
Coproduction Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou; Théâtre de Corbeil-Essonnes - Grand Paris Sud; Centre d'art et de culture - Espace culturel Robert Doisneau - Ville de Meudon; Festival d'Automne à Paris.
Set design by Ateliers du Théâtre Gérard Philipe - CDN de Saint-Denis and Clémence Roudil.
With the support of Drac Île-de-France - Ministère de la Culture; Ateliers Médicis; L'Azimut; Fonds de dotation Porosus; dispositif d'insertion professionnelle de l'ENSATT; Fonds d'insertion pour Jeunes Comédien-nes de l'ESAD - PSPBB and the Ministère de la Culture as part of the CulturePro scheme; Les Aventurier-e-s; Cromot - Maison d'artistes et de production; Jeune Théâtre National; association Bergers en Scène d'Ivry.
This project is a 2023 winner of the Fonds régional pour les talents émergents - FoRTE, financed by the Île-de-France Region, and receives support for dramatic performances from Spedidam.
La Tendre Lenteur is supported by Céline Martinet & Alexandre Slyper - Tapioca Production.
The Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of this re-creation, and are presenting it in co-realisation with the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry - CDN du Val-de-Marne.
Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.
Some leave the village, others remain. A brother leaves for the city. He becomes a writer. The other brother and sister stay, finding employment as a manual labourer and a saleswoman. One day, the writer returns to the village, he has inherited the family home. However, between yesterday and today, and between the brother who returns and the brother and sister who never left, a painful, abyss-like wound opens up. In this show, director Sébastien Kheroufi, in close collaboration with Peter Handke, transposes the Austrian author's village into a housing estate in the suburbs of a French city. In the 1960s, fruit trees, and fields of wheat and vegetables still grew here. As we bear witness to the social and geographical divide, and the opposing trajectories within the same family, our entire contemporary history unfurls before us, expressed via our innermost lives.
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