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Retour à Reims (Return to Reims)
Didier Eribon - Thomas Ostermeier
Girona, December 5th and 6th
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A political drama in its own right. The director of La Schaubühne Theatre (Berlin) reinterprets the famous essay by the sociologist Eribon on the contradictions of the working class
Thomas Ostermeier revolutionises political theatre with his adaptation of French sociologist Didier Eribon’s celebrated essay Retour à Reims. A chronicle of the defeat of the working class and its desperate turn to the far right.
Artistic team
- Authory: Didier Eribon (Retour à Reims book adaptation, from Schaubühne version)
- Direction: Thomas Ostermeier
- Performers: Cédric Eeckhout, Irène Jacob and Blade Mc Alimbaye
- Scenic space and costume: Nina Wetzel
- Music: Nils Ostendorf
- Sound space: Jochen Jezussek
- Dramaturgy: Florian Borchmeyer and Maja Zade
- Lighting: Erich Schneider
- Movie direction: Sébastien Dupouey and Thomas Ostermeier
- General stage manager: Jean-Philippe Bocquet
- Stage manager: Philippe Puglierini
- Lighting control : Etienne Gaches / David Pérez
- Sound control: Charlotte Constant / Ludovic Giglielmazzi / Frédéric Vienot
- Video control: Oliver Vulliamy / Eve Liot
- Executive production: Gautier Fournier / Elizabeth Gay
- Production: Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
- Coproduction: Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Théâtre National de Strasbourg, TAP – Théâtre & Auditorium de Poitiers, Scène nationale d’Albi, La Coursive Scène nationale La Rochelle, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, MA avec Granit – Scènes nationales de Belfort et de Montbéliard, Espace Malraux Scène nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie and Théâtre de Liège
- Original production: Schaubühne Berlin avec Manchester International Festival, HOME Manchester and Théâtre de la Ville Paris Avec le soutien de Pro Helvetia, fondation suisse pour la culture
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DECEMBER
Thursday, 5
– 20:30
Friday, 6
– 18:00
Premiere in the Spanish State
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Show in French with Catalan surtitles