Stricken with mal de vivre, a number of individuals end up within the walls of an ageing institution, L’Avenir. It welcomes the weary, the miserable, the depressed, all those who, one day, gave up, dreamed of disappearing for a while. At L’Avenir, between two cups of coffee served by an ageless steward, these people train to keep up with the world, to maintain the tempo, by integrating the rules of successful sociability.
In this breathless place, this fragile community of lonely souls tries to relearn what it takes to engage in the business of life. Trained to become the protagonists of their own lives, to play their part in a society that wears them down, they are plagued by doubt: play the game, yes, but why?
After HOME: Morceaux de nature en ruine and Toutes les villes détruites se ressemblent, the Nature II company, under the impetus of Magrit Coulon, presents the final part of its trilogy of commonplaces. Somewhere between secret polyphony and a choreography for tired bodies, L’Avenir continues the search for a theatre of the ordinary: writing focused on bodies and detail, the time that passes and the time that doesn’t, attention paid to everyday life, which is both funny and sad at the same time.
Première
Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Calendar
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- 20:00
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- 20:00
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- 14:00
Daytime performance
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- 19:00
Information
Language
fr, surtitling en
Duration
1hr15
Venue
Studio
Price
€9
Cast
With
Raphaëlle Corbisier
Emmanuelle Gilles-Rousseau
Marianne Hansé
Romain Pigneul
Jules Puibaraud
Claire Rappin
Writing
Bogdan Kikena
Magrit Coulon et collective
Direction
Magrit Coulon
Dramaturgy
Bogdan Kikena
Polyphonic singing, collaboration in playing direction and writing
Lucile Charnier
Assistant director
Anne Prea
Scenography
Justine Bougerol
Costumes Kostuums Costumes
Solène Valentin
Sound design
Olmo Missaglia
Lighting design
Manon Vergotte
Outside view
Stéphane Olivier
Collaboration in physical work
Natacha Nicora
Stage Manager
Pierre Ottinger
Technics
Corentin Christiaens
David Defour
Arthur Demaret
Stéphanie Denoiseaux
Jeison Pardo Rojas
Set construction and costume design
Ateliers du Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
A performance by
Nature II
Production
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Coproduction
Théâtre de Liège, Comédie de Genève, maison de la culture de Tournai/maison de création, Théâtre de Lorient, MC93 - Scène nationale de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny, Théâtre Antoine Vitez - Scène d’Ivry, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod
With the help of
La Fédération Wallonie- Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Direction du Théâtre
With the support of
CENTQUATRE-Paris, Centre Culturel d’Uccle, MoDul, La Bellone, Le Corridor, le Bocal, et de Taxshelter.be, ING et du Taxshelter du gouvernement fédéral belge
