Fourvière, theatrical nights
This is undoubtedly an original proposition from Éric Massé and Angélique Clairand, co-directors of the Théâtre du Point-du-Jour. They invite us to several theatrical evenings that will take place in different hotels (Le Grand Barnum - Les Grandes Voisines, Mercure Lyon Centre Lumière, and Fourvière Hôtel). The idea is to imagine what happens in these places of passage. The pieces presented were written from interviews conducted with those who work and pass through them. They inspired the four stories that will be performed in a surprising intimacy. Offered to small groups, this experience is to be enjoyed in three establishments in the city – steeped in cinema, contemporary art, and outsider art, formerly convents or hospitals. They influence this immersive and ambulatory show.
Hotel Portraits – From June 3 to 9
This one-man show, performed by Vincent Dedienne, is a continuation of Juste la fin du monde , directed by Johanny Bert, which we saw in April at the Croix-Rousse theater. Where Vincent Dedienne brilliantly played the main role. We find the duo (Vincent Dedienne for the performance, Johanny Bert for the direction) in this theatrical creation based on the diary kept by Jean-Luc Lagarce, the author of Juste la fin du monde . The actor, accompanied by the designer Irène Vignaud, takes hold of the intimate writings of the famous playwright in order to draw a moving and sensitive portrait of him. From his involvement in the theater – when he was still very young – until his death in 1995, death from AIDS at only 38 years old. A diary that can be read as the reverse of a work now celebrated and performed worldwide, studied in high schools and universities. In these 800 or so pages, we meet a funny and solitary young man, recounting a journey and encounters but also the ups and downs of an era. Vincent Dedienne has chosen to draw an intimate and personal thread, where solitude, sex, and his illness (AIDS) stand out. With elegance, in a staging that is both sober and sophisticated by Johanny Bert, the actor seizes this intense and sinuous language, which advances by trial and error in search of the most vivid truth. The show was a resounding success when it premiered in Paris.
Nothing Ever Happened to Me – From June 4 to 6 at the Croix-Rousse Theater
This polyphonic, theatrical, and musical show by Julien Andujar is based on the disappearance of his sister on September 24, 1995, near Perpignan train station. A famous news story, still unsolved, which is a deep, intimate wound for Julien Andujar. Thirty years later, the younger brother, now a renowned artist, mobilizes all the means of theater and performance to retrace his family's history, restore his memories and the stigmata of this absence. Autobiographical fiction, documentary piece, whimsical cabaret act, Tatiana is all of these things and more. With energy and sensitivity, the author and choreographer embodies the characters who populated a childhood like no other.
Tatiana – June 5th and 6th at the Subs
With La Vie est une fête , created as part of the Nuits de Fourvière, Jusque dans vos bras , on the theme of national identity, presented at the Petit Odéon de Fourvière, or Tout le monde ne peut pas être orphelin , on the family, also programmed by the Nuits de Fourvière, Jean-Christophe Meurisse's troupe, Les Chiens de Navarre, is a regular at the Nuits. Not to mention that it has also performed outside of the Nuits, remember Les Armoires normandes or Les danseurs ont aimé la qualité du parquet aux Subsistances! There have been plenty of opportunities to appreciate this theatre troupe like no other, which is undoubtedly one of the most iconoclastic in France. Les Chiens de Navarre live up to their name: when they take on a subject, they attack in a pack. They tear it apart with their sharp fangs until only the bare bones remain, the essentials. They are back at Les Nuits, scheduled at the TNP, with a new incendiary opus, I will survive , dedicated to justice in France. They stage two major trials, inspired by true events, two stories about sexist violence. A famous comedian told a joke about violence against women in his daily column on a popular radio station. A woman killed her husband after suffering years of physical and sexual violence at his hands. Two cases that set the country ablaze. Jean-Christophe Meurisse and his cronies summon us to the courtroom where magistrates, lawyers, accused, victims, and witnesses meet, confront each other, clash... in flagrant delirium. There is no doubt that the judicial machine, led by this troop of joyful provocateurs, will reveal the contradictions and torments of our society. A trial that will end with justice...
I Will Survive – June 24-28 at the TNP
Lyon Capitale
