For the last four years, Thomas Jolly and his theater company La Piccola Familia have been working on one, single work. The last episode will crown the epic journey of fifteen acts and ten thousand lines, bringing together more than one hundred and fifty characters. In the three parts of HENRY VI, Jolly watches the chaos as it grows, first draped in the airs of a grotesque fiesta, then dropping into tragic gravity before spinning into a dizzying maelstrom of extreme and raw violence. This movement, which is also « thought taking off », was deliberately drawn with a single, continuous stroke, and you are carried along on an 18 hour river of stage performance (intermissions included). Since January, 2012 when the first cycle of this epic project saw the light of day, his vision has aroused extraordinary adhesion on the part of his audience. Thomas Jolly believes in theater. And he created this mammoth work so that we could believe along with him.
Cast
French translation Line Cottegnies
Dramaturgy Julie Lerat-Gersant
Set design Thomas Jolly
Lighting Léry Chédemail, Antoine Travert, Thomas Jolly
Original music/Sound creation Clément Mirguet
Costumes Sylvette Dequest, Marie Bramsen
Richard Gloucester's animal adornment Sylvain Wavrant
production La Piccola Familia
production déléguée Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes
coproduction Le Trident - Scène nationale de Cherbourg-Octeville. Les Gémeaux - Scène nationale – Sceaux. Comédie de Béthune - Centre Dramatique National Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Théâtre de l'Archipel - Scène nationale de Perpignan. Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque. Scène nationale Évreux Louviers. TNT – Théâtre National de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers. Quai des Arts - Argentan, dans le cadre des Relais Culturels Régionaux. Théâtre d’Arras - Scène conventionnée musique et théâtre. Centre Dramatique National de Haute-Normandie.
avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, de l’ODIA Normandie/Office de Diffusion et d’Information Artistique de Normandie.
la Piccola Familia est conventionnée par la DRAC Haute-Normandie, la région Haute-Normandie, la ville de Rouen et soutenue par le département de Seine- Maritime.
Created :
Cycle 1 (Episodes 1 and 2) – January 17th 2012 at the Trident, Scène nationale de Cherbourg-Octeville
Episode 3 – November 7th 2013 at the TNB – Théâtre National de Bretagne – Rennes
Episode 4 – July 21st 2014 at the Fabrica – Festival d'Avignon
