Olivier Py, director of the Avignon Festival since last year, opens itself the ball on July 4 in the courtyard with his version of King Lear Shakespeare, the “absolute piece,” he said. In this cauldron that is King Lear , “madness, power, meditation on the Word, the death work together to give a rich and powerful philosophical subject.”
Lear, a warning
Olivier Py does not hide his joy ride that King Lear that has been brewing for thirty years. If he started with Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare in 2010 is that it was not ready for this “big piece” What King Lear . He reflected for a year to be penetrated and especially print it “a rhythm,” restore “the text galloping.”
His translation “is like no other,” he said . Without projecting part in this, it aims to make “clear” to the viewer the tragedy of an aging king who divides his kingdom between his three daughters in exchange for their declaration of love. Blind to the hypocrisy of his two older daughters who swear their love but will strip him, the king banishes Cordelia, his favorite, who refuses to lend this haggling
“Lear commits three errors:. It would not have had to divide his crown three, he would not have had to ask his daughters to express the inexpressible, namely love, and he should have heard in the silence of Cordelia superior gesture of love and not an insult. He commits these three errors very, very quickly, after three minutes, is done, and then we can not catch up with the disaster, “explains the director. Lear, “is death policy, the collapse of humanism,” he said. “This is a piece that should warn us. When politics is meaningless, it produces violence, war, destruction of kingdoms 2:30 We see the balkanization of a kingdom, that reminds many . things and recent things “
A very physical show
Couples text, Olivier Py wanted to return to” the grammar of Jean Vilar: a floor, great actors , large text “. The set design by Pierre-André Weitz “showcases the court”, so masterly space “all the sets become very small.” A hole dug on stage evokes “the zero hole, emptiness, this meditation on the fact that we are nothing” that is the core of the piece. To play the old king, Olivier Py has chosen a loyal, Philippe Girard, 56 years. “I always thought it was an actor who is not too old, it’s so heavy and so violent role: he speaks to the elements, he speaks in the sun at the beginning, he speaks to the sky, the storm and at night, “he recalls. “All roles are terrible, it’s a very physical show.”
A Lear thumbnail
Every night at 21 pm before the room , onlookers will see on the square in front of the Palace of the Popes a Lear in 20 minutes miniature designed by Py for “three actors, a dancer, trestles and a public square.” The disgruntled that fall it was awarded its second edition from the prestigious setting of the courtyard, Olivier Py replied that he was out of the question that occupies the courtyard every year: “Once all four years, that’s good. ” Author of some thirty pieces to 49, the playwright invests for the third time the courtyard after The Face of Orpheus in 1997 The Enigma Vilar in 2006.
The 69th Avignon Festival offers 38 shows from July 4 to 25 and exhibits, including one dedicated to Patrice Chéreau, who died in 2013. After an eventful 2014 edition marked by the crisis of the entertainment, ticketing “has broken all records on the opening day,” said Olivier Py.
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