TIMETABLES : at 8:30 pm - PLACE : 145 Theatre
The poor sailor, by Jean Cocteau
A woman, who runs a fishermen’s bar falling in ruins, is waiting for her sailor husband, missing since 15 years. She tells a friend about her unconditional faithfulness.
Her husband, wealthy and changed, comes back from his long travel. Happy to learn that his wife is virtuous, he decides to hide his right identity for a time. Close to her, he announces her that her husband is coming back. He describes him as poor and full of debt, whereas he praises his own wealth. The woman decides to kill this traveller in order to steal his fortune and to give it to her husband.
The play ends before a terrible awareness. Fiesta, by Boris Vian
A small fishing harbour in the American tropics, by a white stone quay. Everything calls for inaction : the dazzling sun, a nearly white sea, an unbearably blue sky, fishing tackle bleached by salt. At the raising of the curtain, two characters are having a drink while men and women are moving along in an atmosphere of tropical torpor.
Suddenly, a small craft draws alongside. A shipwrecked man is lying at the bottom.
He is comforted during a party organized in his honour. Hardly has he been saved when he tries to seduce a local woman. Because of his eagerness and his sudden intrusion in the routine and fragile balance of that small society, he is stabbed in the back.
The corpse is thrown back into the sea while midday torpor falls down upon the quay again. A fatal conclusion, without new developments, far away from individual life and social conventions. Everyone could see there a reflection of his hopes or fears, a mirror of society’s life issues.
Text : extracts from Boris Vian and Jean Cocteau
Director : Cécile Fournier and Luc Denoux
With : Grégory Joris, Anne Varin, Marc Damiel, Raoul Lloret, Eloïse Janaudy, Saphir Belhoul, Nicolas Josserand, Vincent Joris, Benoît Dessange, Véronique Gravoueille, Nicolas, Esther Mainieri, Mylène Javey, Hélène Staehle, Marc Daniel
Music : Darius Milhaud
Piano accompainiment : Laurence Garcin
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