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.jpg){kind=small} .jpg){kind=small} THEATRE - VIDEOA mythology for our times. Four wives, four sisters, four widows in a small village that’s being deserted. This story of four voices with four faces so peculiarly similar aims to recount ordinary lives in all their theatricality: fates and a place governed as if by a dramatic great beyond. Gilles Pastor returns to his autobiographical works. Odette apportez-moi mes morts!, interpreted by Jean-Philippe Salério, blends cinema and theater for an intimate and spectacular moment of sensitivity. “There are four of them. They are my mother and my aunts. Since spring 2010, I’ve united them in La Giettaz in the Savoy region, in the village of their birth. One of them still lives in the village, in the family home. In writing this show, I focused on video and time. From spring 2010 to summer 2011, for four seasons, I wove a story from filming sessions with these four sisters, who gave me their faces and voices to write Odette. For the first time in my work writing for the stage, I filmed images and interviews to gather the material that will form the skeleton of this theatre piece for one actor and four video images. Four deaths punctuate my family history, four collapses, four breaks with daily life. In the enclosed space of the family, death emerged, banal and quick: a heart attack or a stroke. Today, four widows, four sisters, cross the village in a snowstorm. The cliff overlooking the village encloses and oppresses it. The same fate ties together my mother and her three sisters, all four of them widows. Today in La Giettaz, time has passed over these widows. I filmed the aged faces of the wives, who blend together. They speak with four voices. Their destinies combine, their voices blend, their gestures resemble each other. The dead are the husbands. I am the son and the nephew – one of the dead is my father. The village is slowly emptying and this place where the herds gathered is today being invaded by young forests. The ritual of bathing the dead. The waters of the torrent are violent. There are four wives. Speaking is painful for these women who have never spoken. The roughness of their faces [mirrors] the comparative destinies of their faces and the village.” Gilles Pastor. |
Residence dates:23 may to 1er june 2011, 5 to 17 sept., 12 to 23 dec. 2011 and 2 to 14 jan. 2012BackgroundGilles PastorDirector, author and actor, in 2002 Gilles Pastor founded the theater company KastôrAgile and developed a personal, intimate theater by introducing autobiographical ...... Jean-Philippe Salério has acted under the direction of Laurent Pelly (La Périchole operetta by Jacques Offenbach / Les Funérailles d’hiver by Hanokh Levin), ...... Social Gatherings“Babel” on 12 January. When the play finishes, meeting with the creative teamChantier, presentation of a work step ahead of the creation / Free Thurs 15 December at 7 pm |
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