Guy Cassiers transforms Camille de Toledo’s novel into a stage labyrinth about grief, family memory and European trauma
One of the great names of the European stage and a regular at Temporada Alta, Guy Cassiers brings Camille de Toledo’s novel to the theatre with the collaboration of actress and co-director Valérie Dréville. After her brother’s suicide, the protagonist is left paralysed and begins to reconstruct the layers of a family history marked by Europe’s traumas. Between word, image and sound, Thésée, sa vie nouvelle turns the myth of Theseus into a contemporary labyrinth of memory, grief and transmission.
Artistic team
Text: Based on Thésée, sa vie nouvelle, by Camille de Toledo
Concept and direction: Guy Cassiers and Valérie Dréville
Performance: Valérie Dréville
Video: Bram Delafonteyne
Sound: Jeroen Kenens
Lighting: Zélie Champeau
Artistic collaboration: Benoît de Leersnyder
Assistant director: Tristan Pannatier
Outside eye: Blandine Savetier
Production: Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Images
By the same creator
Antigone in Molenbeek + Tiresias (TA20, TA21), La néta del Senyor Linh (TA18), Borderline (TA17), Les benignes (TA16), Le sec et l’humide (TA15), Orlando (TA13), El cor de les tenebres (Duister Hart) (TA12), Rojo reposado (TA10)
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SWITZERLAND / FRANCE
