Sans tambour • Samuel Achache • Théâtre National

‘It all starts with a collapse – the collapse of a couple, of their house and of its history. Whether they talk or sing, it’s all the same in the end. As their story ends, ours begins – a story that involves building again on our own ruins.’

Samuel Achache likes to create new links between theatre and music. In Sans tambour, he takes on Schumann’s lieder, joyfully subverting their gravity and breaking them down into different little playlets.

Tackling a theme as old as love (breaking up and the ensuing collapse), the virtuoso band of performers goes through a flood of imbalances.

Behind the schoolboyish spirit of Sans tambour lurks a gentle melancholy. The stage becomes a construction site under permanent deconstruction, composed of layers of the past and traces of the present. The voice and the musical instruments emerge from the ruins and seem to rise like phoenixes from the chaos. The fragmented score plunges us into deep but fleeting subjective images, like shards.

Information

Language

Duration

1hr 40mins

Venue

Grande salle

Price

Grande production

Cast

Direction
Samuel Achache

Music director
Florent Hubert

Collective arrangements of Schumann's Lieder from
Liederkreis op.39, Frauenliebe und Leben op.42, Myrthen op. 25, Dichterliebe op.48, Liederkreis op.24

Composition
Antonin-Tri Hoang
Florent Hubert
Eve Risser

Scenography
Lisa Navarro

Costume Design
Pauline Kieffer

Light design
César Godefroy

Dramaturgical collaboration
Sarah Le Picard
Lucile Rose

Costumes and accessories assistant
Eloïse Simonis

From and with
Gulrim Choï / Myrtille Hetzel (alternating)
Lionel Dray
Antonin-Tri Hoang
Florent Hubert
Sébastien Innocenti
Sarah Le Picard
Léo-Antonin Lutinier
Agathe Peyrat
Eve Risser / Samuel Achache

General and stage manager
Serge Ugolini

Stage management (alternating)
Sarah Jacquemot-Fiumani
Fabrice Barbotin
Igor Landron

Light operators
Maël Fabre

Production
Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord & La Sourde

Coproduction
Théâtre de Lorient - Centre Dramatique National - Théâtre National de Nice - Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg - Théâtre de Caen - Le Quartz, Scène nationale de Brest - Festival d’Avignon - Points communs nouvelle scène nationale Cergy-Pontoise - Val d’Oise - Festival Dei Due Mondi – Spoleto - Opéra national de Lorraine - Festival d’Automne à Paris - Le Parvis – Scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées - Théâtre + Cinéma Scène Nationale Grand Narbonne - Le Grand R – Scène Nationale de La Roche-sur-Yon, Cercle des partenaires

With the support of
Centre national de la musique

Residence
La vie brève – Théâtre de l’Aquarium, de la Fondation Royaumont et du Centre d’Art et de Culture de Meudon