"Où, les cœurs ?"
Lancelot Hamelin & Frédéric Maragnani /
Cie Travaux Publics
First production / Theatre
25, 26, 27 & 28 March 2010: Pre-show event
28 March 2010: All six events
With actors Sarah Leck and Olivier Waibel and amateurs Nicole Ducloux, Guillermo Graham, Ursula Kautto, Akiko Matignon, Charles Levet, Hadia Moindjie, Lydie Rodanow, Monique Sabouret, Corinne Thomas, Abdellatif Sidki, Yuchen Lee, Ching Wah Yim, and Lichin Wang.
Six preliminary plays to open each show during the Ça Tchatche! Week_End #3. Six pieces of less than 10 minutes each written by Lancelot Hamelin, directed by Frédéric Maragnani and performed by 15 amateur Lyon-based actors of various origins. These strange little skits are designed to question the ‘being here’, between myth and reality. With Lancelot Hamelin’s text, the voices of professional and amateur actors and a few songs, Où, les cœurs? take us on a journey to people’s roots. ‘’Où les cœurs s’en vont-ils ?’’ (Where do the hearts go?) sings one of the women. Let’s follow them!
’’Where? Where are you?
Where is she? Where is he?
Where am I?
Here, where my heart beats, that’s where I am, and you, where are you?
What is the question? Is there another question than that of knowing where is
what makes my heart beat?
Where are you, my heart?
How can we split this question? What language should it be asked in?
And the answer, is the answer important?
Or rather: how can we give the answer?
In which language? Through speech? Or through a gesture? A look? A gentle stroke?
A fit of laughter? A silence?"
Lancelot Hamelin
Background
Following his participation in the founding of Théâtre du Grabuge and his work as a director, Lancelot Hamelin decided to focus on his writing. He aims in his work as a writer and director at moving the theatre towards the limits of intimacy and politics. He carries that experience outside of cultural venues to create a ‘wall-less theatre’. He wrote Alta Villa contrepoint, directed by Mathieu Bauer in November 2007 at Théâtre Ouvert in Paris. Hamelin then continued his partnership with the director to create a variation on Richard Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde, presented in June 2009 at Les Subsistances. In 2009, he produced Le procès de Bill Clinton, directed by Christophe Perton at the CDN in Valence.
Frédéric Maragnani focuses on theatre directing through the development of a project as a research and production tool for modern and contemporary writings. His flair for representation comes from his research on the theatre language and sounds, as well as the forms of representation and production. Words are taken out of their usual context, sounds are full of meaning, and a raw form of theatre is born, as if by breaking in. He has worked with texts by Christophe Huysman, Philippe Minyana, Jean-Luc Lagarce, etc. In February 2009, Frédéric Maragnani was asked by the Théâtre de l’Odéon to present Howard Barker’s The Snow White Case.
Distribution
Written by Lancelot Hamelin.
Directed by Frédéric Maragnani.
Stage and Lighting Manager: Vanessa Lechat.
With the participation of L’Atelier Couture ZigZag (Maïté Chantrel, Florence Leveo, Annette Ayouba, Kheira Boumedienne, Marie-Paule Lopez, Zohna Ouertani, Yasmina Neribai, Fatma Dairi, Zakia Mehmedi, Zohra Guiova, Zejnije Emini), IFRA (Gilles Bastion, Philippe Bouchet- Flochet, Pia Gueripel, Rosette Smati, Nicole Ducloux, Raphaël Telleria, Serge Gares, Pascale Savi, Michèle Charras, Véronique Bernard, Thi Thu Trang Nguyen, Pascale Schutz, Alexandre
Durinck, Muriel Bétend).
Co-produced by Compagnie Travaux Publics
Coproduction & Residency: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France.
With the support of: Région Rhône-Alpes (projet Fiacre) –
TBC.
The company TRAVAUX PUBLICS is subsidised by DRAC Aquitaine, Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine, Conseil Général de la Gironde and the city of Bordeaux.
