Au Monde / In the World; ten years ago it was a theatrical universe that made its mark right from the start. Breathing calm intensity into every single dimension at the same time. A very powerful old man wishes to step down and let his youngest son take over. The latter has just abandoned his past life and he remains in limbo, as if on the threshold of something he doesn’t yet know how to name. Around them are three sisters, a brother, the husband of the eldest daughter. And then there is that mysterious woman whom the eldest daughter’s husband has hired, a strange foreigner whose « idiom » is as incomprehensible as the exact nature of her function. The waiting, the family interactions, are punctuated with worries and desires that are only half-expressed. Here and there, we catch glimpses of half-enigmatic eruptions, which seem like nocturnal fragments that have seeped in from some other world. How is Pommerat, who directs his own creations, going to re-create one of the major plays that contributed to his notoriety.
Cast
scenography Éric Soyer, Marguerite Bordat
lights Éric Soyer
artistical collaboration Marguerite Bordat
costumes Marguerite Bordat, Isabelle Deffin
sound François Leymarie
production Compagnie Louis Brouillard
coproduction Théâtre national de Strasbourg, CDN de Normandie – Comédie de Caen, Théâtre Paris-Villette, Espace Jules Verne − Brétigny-sur-Orge, La Ferme de Bel ébat − Guyancourt, Thécif-Région Île-de-France / avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication − DRAC Île-de-France, du Conseil Général de l’Essonne, de la Ville de Brétigny-sur-Orge, de la Ville de Paris et de l’ADAMI
compagnie conventionnée − DRAC, Conseil Général de l’Essonne, Ville de Brétigny-sur-Orge et en résidence à Brétigny-sur-Orge
coproduction recréation Compagnie Louis Brouillard, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Théâtre National − Bruxelles
La Compagnie Louis Brouillard reçoit le soutien du Ministère de la Culture − DRAC Île-de-France et de la Région Île-de-France
créé le 21 janvier 2004 au Théâtre national de Strasbourg
avec le soutien du Cercle de l'Odéon
