Director:
Guillaume Vincent
Playwright:
Marion Stoufflet
Acting:
Alice Le Strat, Pauline Lorillard, Ostap Tchovnovoï, Cyril Texier, Clément Fenasse, Susann Vogel
Lighting:
Nicolas Joubert
Costumes:
Magali Murbach
Set Design:
Laurianne Scimemi
Production:
Théâtre National Strasbourg
Coproduction :
Théâtre National de Bretagne – Rennes, le Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Jeune Théâtre National.
‘I would like to tackle this book as if I were conscious of the passage of time, age and death. What a scandal, what a scandal, to let all this time pass, and to lean over the bridge to watch it flow by!’
Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (1953).
"The Waves by Virginia Woolf is a novel in which the monologues of six voices intertwine. These voices never engage in dialogue but often respond to one another, across eight scenes, from childhood to maturity. Starting from the encounter “here and now” between this text and six actors, “we who are not yet twenty-five”, at a time when “everything trembles, everything shakes”. In other words, for us, starting from the centre of the novel. That's where it begins. In the present. And without retracing our steps, let us summon childhood, adolescence, our own memories or those of Louis, Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville and Jinny. Let us try, through the discontinuity of perceptions, with the violence of beginnings and their occasional gentleness, to let ourselves be pierced by the first “sharp arrows” of sensations. But time passes, digging furrows and ruts; ‘and sometimes it seems that the choice has been made for us.’ Death bursts in. On stage, emptiness. The arrow of time accelerates and we are swept away. "Let's start a new chapter, let's observe the formation of a strange, unknown, terrifying and unidentified experience. Let us project ourselves forward, into the anguish of time passing, time lost, time frozen. And let us dream in the theatre of death where “everything must happen ” now “ and ” here ' among the spectators."
Marion Stoufflet, Guillaume Vincent
