with Sharif Andoura, Salvatore Cataldo, Éric Challier, Teddy Chawa, François Godart, Camille Lucas, Édith Mérieau, Judith Morisseau, Catherine Morlot, Adrien Rouyard
and the musicians of the ensemble Miroirs Étendus Guy-Loup Boisneau, Émile Carlioz, Clotilde Lacroix, Flore Merlin

How to do good when reality is so complex and contradictory? With La réponse des Hommes, programmed yet again this season after last season’s success, Tiphaine Raffier questions the "archaic or contemporary moral dilemmas and worries that haunt us." The show confronts the injunctions of the Christian Works of Mercy (shelter foreigners, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked…) with the reality of our contemporary world. Neither moralistic nor proselytizing, Tiphaine Raffier calls on the audience’s empathy to better highlight its contradictions, and unveil the proximity, even familiarity, of evil. A woman doing humanitarian work is incapable of taking care of her own child; a sick young man wishes, in spite of himself, for the death of the donor who will save his life; a family man apparently beyond reproach chooses to burn his secret rather than confess it… The nine stories imagined by Tiphaine Raffier, subtly and simply led by a troupe of ten actors, place us in front of impossible choices, and highlight the inextricability of fairness and unfairness.

Cast

assistant and dramaturg Lucas Samain
composition Othman Louati
choreography Pep Garrigues and Salvatore Cataldo
set design Hélène Jourdan
costumes Caroline Tavernier assisted by Salomé Vandendriessche
video creation Pierre Martin Oriol
camera operator Raphaël Oriol
lighting design Kelig Le Bars
sound design Hugo Hamman


sound Hugo Hamman and Martin Hennart
lighting director Christophe Fougou
video director Pierre Hubert
stage manager Olivier Floury
stage manager Pierre Frenkel


production editor Sabrina Fuchs
coordinator and production manager Juliette Chambaud
administrator Charlotte Pesle Beal
director of production and development Christine Tiana

production La femme coupée en deux, La Criée - Théâtre national de Marseille

musical production Miroirs Étendus

coproduction ExtraPôle Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Festival d'Avignon, Châteauvallon-Liberté - scène nationale, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Théâtre de Lorient-centre dramatique national, Théâtre du Nord - centre dramatique national Lille-Tourcoing, Théâtre national populaire de Villeurbanne,Théâtre Olympia - centre dramatique national de Tours, La Rose des vents - scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d'Ascq, Théâtre Gérard Philipe - centre dramatique national de Saint-Denis, Le Quartz - scène nationale de Brest, Scène nationale 61, Le Phénix - scène nationale de Valenciennes-Pôle européen de création, Le Préau - centre dramatique national de Vire-Normandie 

with the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Hauts-de-France, the Hauts-de-France region, the city of Lille, the Direction générale de la création artistique, the Grand Sud-Lille

with the artistic participation of the Jeune théâtre national and the École du Nord integration programme - supported by the Hauts-de-France region and the Ministry of Culture

the company La femme coupée en deux is supported by the Ministry of Culture / Hauts-de-France regional directorate of cultural affairs, as part of the aid to approved companies and is supported by the Hauts-de-France region

La réponse des Hommes is published by L'avant-scène théâtre

Biography of Tiphaine Raffier

Actress, author, director and producer, Tiphaine Raffier trained at the École du Nord in Lille. She has worked under the direction of Stuart Seide, Frank Castorf and Jacques Vincey. She co-founded the collective "Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur", and participated in the creation of Les Particules élémentaires and 2666, directed by Julien Gosselin. At the same time, she created her company, "La femme coupée en deux", and directed her own texts: La Chanson (2012), Dans le nom (2014), France-fantôme (2017), La réponse des Hommes (2019) and La Chanson [reboot] (2021). Dans le nom and France-fantôme were scheduled at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in 2020, but cancelled due to the pandemic; La réponse des Hommes was presented jointly with the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in January 2022. In 2023, still at the Odéon, she adapted Némésis, a novel by Philip Roth. For the cinema, she directed La Chanson, a short film selected for the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes (2018).


Her theatrical work is published by La Fontaine and L'avant-scène théâtre.