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“Cécile” by Marion Duval
Born in Nice but trained at the Manufacture (a theater school based in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she lives and works), founder, in 2011, of the Chris Cadillac company, Marion Duval designs shows that avoid strict forms for their prefer fiery, even perilous, face-to-face encounters with spectators. This year she returns behind the scenes for a single on stage with the extraordinary performer Cécile Laporte, a show which mixes, pell mell, the dramas of disability, cancer and madness.
The director offers us a three-hour self-portrait, overflowing with energy, an excessive life committed to making us green with envy: but who really is this Cécile?
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Cecile by Marion Duval is available until October 19, 2024 at the Théâtre de la Bastille, as part of the Festival d’Automne, then on tour:
- at the Lieu Unique in Nantes: November 5, 6, 7, 2024
- at the National Drama Center of Angers: November 14 and 15, 2024
- at the National Theater of Strasbourg: from January 22 to February 1, 2025
- at the MAD Festival at TNWB in Bordeaux: March 14 and 15, 2025
- at La Comédie de Genève: from April 2 to 5, 2025
- at the National Drama Center Les 2 Scènes in Besançon: April 16 and 17, 2025
“Parallax”, un texte de Kata Wéber mis en scène Kornél Mundruczó
Internationally recognized director and filmmaker, Kornél Mundruczó founded the independent company Proton Theater in Hungary, with which he presents creations of powerful and original theatricality. Sometimes inspired by novels (such as Disgrâce by JM Coetzee) or films, he builds through rehearsals, with the actors and actresses of the company, as well as with the writer Kata Wéber – also his screenwriter for the cinema –, often disturbing stories, which explore the reality of beings, their intimate quests, their contradictions, and at the same time that of the historical and political worlds in which they struggle to exist.
Three characters are at the center of Parallax – a term which designates the effect of changing point of view on perception. These three faces of the same story are, in Budapest, an old Jewish lady, who refuses to receive a camp survivor’s medal from the current Hungarian government; in Berlin, his daughter, who has chosen exile, and instead needs to prove her Jewish identity to benefit from the attention paid to it in Germany; and finally his son, a young homosexual man who has encountered the violence of other discrimination, and who is only interested in his gay identity. Parralax asks: how is an identity both a burden and a privilege?
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Parallaxdirected by Kornél Mundruczó and the Proton Théâtre company, is available from October 10 to 18 at the Odéon theater (Ateliers Berthiers) with the Autumn Festival.
Sound clips:
- Sound extract from a recording of the piece Cecile by Marion Duval, 2024
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