Abandoned by their author during the creation process, six characters find refuge in the Théâtre Montansier, guardian of the thousands of stories performed within its walls and inhabited by the ghosts of the characters who have lived there.
Driven by a vital need to recount their drama, these six characters, who form a tormented family, interrupt the current rehearsals of the Compagnie Gabbiano troupe and try to convince the director and actors to bring them to life. Playwright Luigi Pirandello's play takes on the allure of a modern fable, in which our absolute need to tell stories in a quest for meaning and truth is heard. The story becomes a veritable labyrinth in which all seek a path to their own truth, but it turns out to be a dead end where all ultimately come up against their own condition as human beings. The mechanics of theatrical representation jam, and everyone struggles to distinguish between reality and fiction. This play of mirrors between the actors and these six characters, who resist their incarnation through theatrical representation, reflects the abyss into which human beings fall when they ask themselves the vertiginous question "Who am I?
The music, from the author's native Sicilian tradition, seeks to make the invisible perceptible. Whether it gives voice to the characters' inner turmoil or accompanies their rambling narratives, music is the beating heart of these lost souls, whose existence remains as uncertain as our own.
Thomas Bellorini presents Six personnages en quête d'auteur by Luigi Pirandello. The director continues his research into the relationship between reality and fiction, in line with previous creations by the Gabbiano company, including Stefano Massini's Femme non-réducable, Bernard-Marie Koltes' Roberto Zucco, Chekhov's La Cerisaie, Laurent Gaudé's Les Scorta and Tombeau pour Palerme, performed last season at the Théâtre Montansier.
By Pirandello, translation and adaptation by Fabrice Melquiot (Édition L'Arche), staging and musical direction by Thomas Bellorini, artistic collaboration by Hélène Madeleine Chevallier, lighting by Thomas Bellorini and Marc Gingold, sound by Nicolas Roy
with Samy Azzabi, Elisa Berr, Jérémy Breut, Xavier Brière, Hélène Madeleine Chevallier, Stanislas Grimbert, Marie Seguin, June Van Der Esch, Zsuzsanna Varkonyi (in progress)
Coproduction Théâtre Montansier/Versailles, Compagnie Gabbiano, with the support of Centquatre-Paris
Catégorie A:
Série 1: 39?
Série 2: 34?