Claire, Anton, and them

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The 2017 archive

François Cervantes

Paris / Created in 2017

Each of the fourteen actors calls forth the people who have made them who they are. They all come back from past centuries to defend the power and necessity of the stories that tie people together.

Claire, Anton, and them © Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Presentation

A snowy morning, a war-torn landscape, the parquet of a ballroom... Bedrooms, hallways, streets, gardens, trains... Heavy coats, light dresses, aprons... Frenchmen, Spaniards, Moroccans, Algerians, Syrians, Hungarians... Endless lists of men and women, of places and situations that François Cervantes asked the fourteen young actors of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique to make, based on their personal history. Thanks to a specific work on body memory, each of them summoned the people who made their lives, blood relations and poetic families alike. All come back from their century, be it the 16th or the 20th... and the stage is their multitude. “The job of the actor is to offer hospitality,” the director likes to say, defending the necessity and the responsibility of his trade: to always give stories the place that is rightfully theirs, to fulfill that urgent need we have to talk to one another. Claire, Anton, and them is the mischievous title François Cervantes gave to this initiatory play, which is also an homage to a school whose role is to teach, to understand, to welcome, even maybe to take care of its students. A nod to Chekhov, who was also a doctor...

 

Distribution

Direction François Cervantes
Dramaturgy Renaud Ego
Lights Lauriano de La Rosa
Costumes Camille Aït Allouache

With Gabriel Acremant, Théo Chédeville, Louise Chevillotte, Milena Csergo, Salomé Dienis Meulien, Lucie Grunstein, Roman Jean-Elie, Jean Joude, Kenza Lagnaoui, Sipan Mouradian, Solal Perret-Forte, Maroussia Pourpoint, Léa Tissier, Sélim Zahrani

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Production Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique

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