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Les Ateliers du spectacle „À distances” (France)


 

A magical performance of object theatre! The theatrical troupe of visual artists from Les Ateliers du spectacle present, especially for the spectators of the Materia Prima Festival, a performance during which dead matter rises to life in front of your eyes, poetry is created on stage – all this will provide an inspiration that you won’t easily forget.

 

 

Les Ateliers du spectacle

 

The French theatre troupe Les Ateliers du spectacle was founded in 1988 on the occasion of the creation of  “Rébusmalheureux” a twenty-minute long visual performance without words. The workshop, which is also called Les Ateliers du spectacle, is still operating in Aubervilliers, supporting the group in its theatrical productions.

Jean Pierre Larroche, who has so far organised 17 shows, has managed the group from its very beginnings. He asked Thierry Roisin to direct “À distances”, and this is what Thierry has to say about their cooperation.

 

“At the very beginning Jean-Pierre prepared a list of his most incidental desires, like a child who explores the attic in his grandmother’s house: among them were chaotically written down actions at a distance, strange accidents and coincidences between causes and effects, self-portraits, Paul Valéry’s words. The next step was the craftsmen’s work, a continued movement of the entire team between the workshop which produced the decorations and the rehearsal room, between resistant matter and the poetic, unspoken possibilities it yields; how shall we tie together the threads appearing on this fragile canvas? Slowly, the performance, unexpected as it was, began emerging, as if on a photograph being slowly developed in a dark room. We saw a man looking for another version of himself, slowly disposing of the distance between himself and the world that surrounds him, who weaves words. In order to exist, he creates. In order to create, he is thinking with humour and tenderness about time and a surprising event. There is no theatre without waiting, and there is no waiting without surprise. In this case, writing and directing soon became inseparable, as they corresponded to different theatrical canons, which became pure poetry.

 

 

“À distances”

 

On the stage we see a figure controlling various devices, with the help of his servant. Some of his actions are accompanied by the words of Paul Valéry and Jean-Pierre Brisset. All this tells a story of a man who is trying to reveal himself to us. Within his reach is the world made to his measure, the whole world suspended, the world which can be set into motion, which can be controlled, suspended or stopped; the world in suspension at his arm’s reach, which he seems to control; the world-reservoir of events, full of surprises and expectations, fulfilled forecasts (also disappointments), with a number of possible disasters at hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

“The spectators are invited to enter the theatre through a winding path among black curtains. Then they sit down in front of a stage filled with numerous objects, lamps, wardrobes and stools, on the top of which there are plates. Finally, a man appears, dressed in 17th century fashion, blowing a large horn. This is the magician’s assistant, the helper of Jean-Pierre Larroche, who – hidden in the dark, will soon be busy with various manipulations which the spectators will not always realize. They can see a stool whose leg moves for so long that the plate finally falls off it, but doesn’t get broken. The stool, however, kneels down and tries to pick up the plate and then gets up and stares at it. This stool really looks alive. Of course it is only the spectators who see it this way; Jean-Pierre Larroche, pulling the invisible strings, pulls us, in this way, into the world of his imagination.”

[ “Le Monde”, Brigitte Salino]

 

A man is sitting at the end of a long table. At the other end, there are a carafe and a glass. He wants a drink, but he doesn’t want to get up or perhaps he can’t. He has no other help. What does he do to a) fill his glass? b) make it appear at his lips? With this funny operation Jean-Pierre Larroche, an architect, stage designer and visual artist, closes “A Distance”, a  performance in seven parts directed by Thierry Roisin. Larroche manages to isolate the very essence of the creative act by refusing to give in to what we consider to be the course of time. As Valéry once said “Because things undergo change we only ever notice parts of them. That part of them which is always concealed we call time.” This part which is “always concealed” is also the raison d’etre of theatre. After all, “A Distance” lasts for an hour and twenty minutes. “Incredible” said one of the viewers leaving the theatre “I could swear that it was no longer than half an hour!”

[ „Liberation”, Rene Solis]

 

Duration time: 80 min.

 

 phot. Pascal Maine

 

 

Artists:

 

show conceived and interpreted by: Jean-Pierre Larroche

and written by: Benoît Fincker, Jean-Pierre Larroche and Thierry Roisin

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stage direction: Thierry Roisin

lighting and sound: Benoît Fincker

assistant stage direction: Balthazar Daninos

on stage: Jean-Pierre Larroche and Marion Lefebvre

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music for Scene 4: Michel Musseau

vocal score for Scene 5: Richard Dubelski

costumes: Jacotte Sibre

technical collaboration: Anne Ayçoberry, Jeanne Gailhoustet, Pascale Hanrot

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multi-media production: Nelly Maurel and Mathieu Simon

cameraman: Christian Merlhiot

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general production: Jérémie Garry

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decor: les Ateliers du spectacle

assisted by: François Bancillon, Sylvain Georget, Vincent Guillot, Salvatore Stara



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Teatr Lalki, Maski i Aktora GROTESKA, ul. Skarbowa 2, Kraków