SANTOIRE IS THE NAME - Compagnie de La Chamade, with Marie-Hélène Lafon, Maxime Le Gac-Olanié, Laurent Poitrenaux and Mélanie Traversier - Duration: 1 hour.
STAGED READING - Director: Julia de Gasquet - Written by: Marie-Hélène Lafon - Administration and production: Mona Guichard - Set design: Adeline Caron - Stage management and props: Delphine Sainte-Marie - Images from the documentary "Let's Dance While We're Not Dead" by Cécile Lateule - Tripode Productions.
In Marie-Hélène Lafon's work, there is a character, a figure, a recurring presence: La Santoire. Sometimes a river, sometimes a house, sometimes a lineage, and
sometimes a character, Santoire is the name that could have become her pseudonym, but which instead became a metonym for a powerful and intimate geography. Around this evocative name, Julia de Gasquet has imagined a staged reading, skillfully weaving excerpts from books and interviews. Sitting down at Marie-Hélène Lafon's workbench, we will follow the fault lines, the ups and downs of this body of land, a land of writing as well. On stage, Maxime Le Gac-Olanié, Laurent Poitrenaux, and Mélanie Traversier give substance to this singular language. The author is present from beginning to end: a spectator of her fiction, she sometimes takes on a voice in it.
A project initiated at the Comédie du Livre-Montpellier (May 2023), at the Banquet du Lire – Lagrasse (August 2023), and at L’Equinoxe -Scène nationale de Châteauroux (October 2024) with the support of the Colline-Théâtre National.
This creation by the Compagnie de La Chamade received support from the Michalski Foundation.
In Marie-Hélène Lafon's work, there is a character, a figure, a recurring presence: La Santoire. Sometimes a river, sometimes a house, sometimes a lineage, and
sometimes a character, Santoire is the name that could have become her pseudonym, but which instead became a metonym for a powerful and intimate geography. Around this evocative name, Julia de Gasquet has imagined a staged reading, skillfully weaving excerpts from books and interviews. Sitting down at Marie-Hélène Lafon's workbench, we will follow the fault lines, the ups and downs of this body of land, a land of writing as well. On stage, Maxime Le Gac-Olanié, Laurent Poitrenaux, and Mélanie Traversier give substance to this singular language. The author is present from beginning to end: a spectator of her fiction, she sometimes takes on a voice in it.
A project initiated at the Comédie du Livre-Montpellier (May 2023), at the Banquet du Lire – Lagrasse (August 2023), and at L’Equinoxe -Scène nationale de Châteauroux (October 2024) with the support of the Colline-Théâtre National.
This creation by the Compagnie de La Chamade received support from the Michalski Foundation.
