Wednesday, July 6, in the solemn courtyard of the Papal Palace, we felt the big night. The event of the Festival of great comedians, those of the French, finally returning to Avignon, the Pike perch, Podalydès, Gallienne, Corbery, Lepoivre, Génovèse … Neither Racine, neither Hugo nor Shakespeare for them, but a drought scenario signed Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco and Medioli. That of Damned , the film caused a scandal in 1969
The plate is huge – 40 meters wide. Left makeup tables in a screen center right coffins. Come on stage all the actors and technicians, not dressed, not made up, they stand facing the audience. As a salvation for a room that does no offer to his characters. Ivo van Hove sets the tone input. One caution as far as staging: “We will play to you the tragedy of a world that is going to ruin. Up to you. “From the beginning, when the actors will wear their costume, in the end, when the cursed son Martin scale, full price, the madness of his sound and fury, never spectators can forget that they are part, that the horror is not only the game of some isolated terrorists.
And the public cash, stunned, shaken. In this game of power, power loss values, the actors in this tragedy, the members of the family von Essembeck if déglinguent. Apart from the Nazi Aschenbach (perfect diabolically Eric Génovèse) that still stands right in his polished boots, others bend, twist, dip in beer, kill, torture, exert blackmail, cry, become exhausted, flesh against flesh . Of love ? Especially not. Shakespeare is not far in the couple mother / son of Hamlet and the pair of lovers: Elsa Lepoivre doubling carrying the load of the mother who made her son a set of purpose and role of cold lover, Lady Macbeth, desperate to “have it all”. Van Hove and Éric Ruf, head of the Comédie-French, worked together distribution. It is perfect shows.
Podalydès demonstrated, once again, an amazing art of theater, which makes sensitive psychological skinning each step and its physical Konstantin character. In hair, in uniform, he is nothing more than a spinning top and Podalydès turns, turns in a small Bavarian pathetic jitter. And grand. Loïc Corbery, fiery, has the best role since it has one of the good: Thallman includes everything has to run away, but comes back to testify. He throws himself on the other, he screams, he whispers. He is the one who is the voice of truth. Gallienne, who reprises the role of Dirk Bogarde’s lover Baroness, simmer trouble, fear of the inevitable bankruptcy of the soul. Tent there to rebel? The trap is there and he wanted it.
The great revelation is called Christophe Montenez. Martin ignoble, the lost son, the impossible lover, the evil, the man who triumph, “the man without qualities” as says van Hove. Montenez, punk angel face, is prodigious. All say the vacuum itself. And every close-up, performed live with a technician next stage – stalking – every emotion on the face of an actor, emphasizes the emptiness of the characters and the uninhabited space on the board. From all sides, van Hove attack. This is the world. The Apocalypse? There she is. The “night of the long knives”, performed by van Hove as a macabre symphony that escapes the understanding of the audience, squeezed through sound and image, is a masterly achievement.
No humor, but the masters of the world does not. A plain text, why the plume? This will be the only regret not being able to leave stunned by a sublime language. But what we see here, these horrors and damnation, these sounds and images, it is a sacred theater.
At the Avignon Festival until July 16, at 22 am on 14 to 23 hours. No representation on July 10
THE DAMNED – Luchino Visconti D’after Nicola and BADALUCCO Medioli
Director:. IVO VAN HOVE
Set and light: Jan VERSWEYSELD
Costumes: Year of HUYS
Video: Tal Yarde
Music and sound design: Eric SLEICHIM
Dramaturgy: Bart van den EYNDE
Troop of the Comedie-French: Sylvia Bergé – Eric GENOVESE – Denis PODALYDES – Alexandre PAVLOFF – Guillaume GALLIENNE – Elsa LEPOIVRE – Loïc CORBERY – Adeline D Hermy – Clement HERVIEU LEGER – Jennifer DECKER – Didier Sandre – Christophe MONTENEZ – And Basil ALAIMALAIS – Sébastien BAULAIN – Thomas GENDRONNEAU – Ghislain GRELLIER – Oscar LESAGE – tephen TORDO – Tom Wozniczka
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