In 2000, the artist set out to compile the best stories on the issue, those that he was told during his wanderings in the Marais Poitevin or beyond, those that he found strange and unique.
300 performances
To deal with this delicate subject, he must evoke tender deaths, cruel ones and funny ones, peaceful deaths and angry deaths. With the author and director Wajdi Mouawad, they imagine an inspired dramaturgical thread, evoking a village left by all its inhabitants, taking all their possessions with them, except their dead. All that remained was to spread these stories after having relaxed them during numerous vigils.
On stage, in a setting that evokes a cemetery lit by the light of a few lanterns, he lingers on the tombstones, retracing the journeys of everyone: the rich, the young, the poor, the old, the weird , the forgotten, etc. With his irresistible cheekiness and humor, and his humanity too, he fixes the living and the dead. Like death, this show is and will remain perfectly timeless.
Yannick Jaulin created this play on February 29, 2000. He stopped it after 300 performances. A little tired of this permanent proximity to death, he had wanted to do it again in the long term for a long time. He has this taste for the repertoire that he had left aside to create new forms around orality, his language and a few symbols. A show that has become a classic.
