Olivier Py, director of the Avignon Festival since the year last, opens itself the ball on July 4 in the courtyard of honor with his version of “King Lear” by Shakespeare, “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.”
Olivier Py does not hide his joy ride this “King Lear”. If he started with “Romeo and Juliet” in 2010 is that it was not ready for this “chunk”. He reflected for a year, to penetrate and especially print it “a rhythm,” restore “the text galloping.”
His translation “like no other”, they say it. 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 her two elder who swear their love but will strip him, the king banishes Cordelia, his favorite, who refuses to lend this haggling
“Lear commits three errors. He n 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 three errors very, very fast, in three minutes it’s done, and then we can not make up for the disaster, “said the director.
Lear “This is the death of politics, 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. 2h30 We see the balkanization of a kingdom, that reminds many things and recent things. “
– a very physical show –
Olivier Py returned to” the grammar of Jean Vilar: a floor, great actors, great text “. The set design by Pierre-André Weitz “showcases the Court,” such a masterful space “all the sets become very small.”
A hole dug on stage evokes “the void, this meditation on the that we are nothing, “which is the heart of the room.
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.”
Every night at 21:00, before the play, onlookers will see on the square in front of the Palais des Papes a Lear 20 minutes designed by Py for “three actors, a dancer, trestles and a public square.”
The 69th Avignon Festival offers 38 shows from 4 to 25 July and exhibitions, one dedicated to Patrice Chéreau, who died in 2013. After a 2014 edition marked by the crisis of the entertainment, the festival has reduced two-day duration. The ticket has experienced “a start on a flying,” said Olivier Py at the opening press conference.
However, there remain places, especially for young people, with a subscription to 40 euros for 4 shows, and parts data in the third week of the festival, including “81 avenue Victor Hugo,” in extremis added to the program. In the play given the 23 to 25 July, eight undocumented Aubervilliers tell their daily
07/04/2015 1:57:26 p.m. -. Avignon (AFP) – By Marie-Pierre FEREY – © 2015 AFP
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