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Paola Comis / Coupes de colères
« Ces bottes
sont faites pour marcher » (These boots are made for walking)

A strange theatre duo, who attempt to use up our memory by stirring up old feelings in the body and the heart. Somewhere between childhood play, discarded clothes, and innocuous or important words, Paola Comis and Natacha Mendès (in partnership with Sandrine Lanno) take us for a wander in the maze of traces that made us. In their weird and fantastic way, they investigate places of traces and oblivion. An exhilarating source of memories carried by Theo Hakola’s wonderful music.

Residence
2-14 January, 17-31 March and 12-20 July 2006. 1^st performances at Les Subsistances.

Fri 8:30pm / Sat 9pm / Sun 4:30pm

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes approx

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Paola Comis is a member of Théâtre des Lucioles, a collective of 10 actors with whom she produced many shows. In the field of theatre, she has worked with M. François, B. Lotti, and P. Haggiag. On the big screen, she worked with R. Goupil, N. Garcia, R. Depardon, L. Côte and A. Des Pallières. Since 1998 she has created several shows in partnership with Theo Hakola. Since 2002, she has also worked with choreographers N. Béasse and R. Giordano. In 2005, she was cast in and co-directed with T. Hakola Ellen Foster, from the novel of the same name by Kaye Gibbons.

Sandrine Lanno trained outside of her studies as an actor at the Ecole Florent, then later at the CDN in Rheims and at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Since 1998, she has been teaching at Ecole Florent. Since 1997, she has directed many plays, including R.M. Rilke’s "Lettres à une amie vénitienne", "7 pièces en un acte et 1 foirade, dramaticules" by S.Beckett, "Les Charmilles" by Jean-Michel Rabeux, "Croisements, divagations" by Eugène Durif (as a member of the collective Chapiteau du Raj'Ganawak in Saint-Denis). She also directed "Matériau Chimère", inspired by "Chimère et autres bestioles" by D-G Gabily at the Théâtre de la Bastille and "Plus loin que loin" by Zinnie Harris at the Théâtre du Rond-Point. She has worked in partnership with Joël Jouanneau, Sophie Loucachevsky, Piotr Fomenko, K-M Grüber, Pierre Boulez, and Alain Françon.

Natacha Mendès is a literature graduate. She trained with Anne Sicco.
From 1993 to 2002, she was the singer for the band Les Joueurs de Biques and recorded three albums and toured extensively with them. In 2000, she became a member of the company called Les 26000 Couverts, based in Dijon, and toured with them until 2005. Shows include "Les Tournées Fournels" and "Le Bal". In 2002, she met Patrick Haggiag and played Hedvig in "Le Canard sauvage" by A.Strindberg and in "Le Chant des Chants" (2004) at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris. She also performed for choreographer Pascaline Richtardt-Castellani.

“I tried to build a show from ‘what was left to us’, with the intangible things present in each of us, these important little trivial things that make us what we are.
Sandrine Lanno, Natacha Mendès and myself have tried to listen to what constitutes and weaves us, of these fragments of events, of images, of sounds, of speech, that accumulate in us.
We have collected our dreams, our fantasies, our scars, our deficiencies, our fears, our first times, our diseases, our accidents, and our similarities.
Although we based our project on our own stories, our aim was to go beyond autobiography and to create life fragments that would talk to the audience.”
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Artistic contributors: Sandrine Lanno
Written by Natacha Mendes, Sandrine Lanno, Paola Comis
Soundtrack composed by:
Theo Hakola
Lighting by Xavier Hollebecq
With
Nathacha Mendes, Paola Comis