with
Guillaume Bachelé, Joseph Drouet, Denis Eyriey, Carine Goron, Victoria Quesnel, Achille Reggiani, Maxence Vandevelde et Jérémie Bernaert, Baudouin Rencurel (cameramen)

It begins with the fate of Ékatérina Ivanovna who, after surviving an attempt on her husband's life, takes refuge in debauchery. Le Passé explores the depths and abysses of a world that no longer exists: the untapped work of Leonid Andreyev, a Russian writer unjustly forgotten after the 1917 revolution. The translator André Markowicz suggested its reading to Julien Gosselin when he expressed his wish to create a show that would put ‘the disappearance of theatre and the future disappearance of humanity’ on an equal footing. To have the ability to look at the past, from the perspective of the present, with the same distant and uncertain gaze with which we look at the future. This is the dizzying effect of Le Passé, a production which combines contemporary forms with a nostalgia for past theatricality.

Cast

translation 
André Markowicz

set design 
Lisetta Buccellato

dramaturgy 
Eddy D’aranjo

music creation 
Guillaume Bachelé & Maxence Vandevelde

lighting designer
Nicolas Joubert

video designer 
Jérémie Bernaert & Pierre Martin Oriol

sound designer
Julien Feryn

costume designer 
Caroline Tavernier & Valérie Simmoneau

props 
Guillaume Lepert 

masks
Lisetta Buccellato & Salomé Vandendriessche

stage direction assistant
Antoine Hespel

Five dates

1987 Born in Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, a town that no longer exists.

2002 Discovered theatre in a former abattoir at Le Channel in Calais.

2006 Met Victoria Quesnel, Noémie Gantier, Tiphaine Raffier, Antoine Ferron, Alexandre Lecroc-Lecerf and Guillaume Bachelé in Lille – the beginning of it all.

2013 Les Particules élémentaires, Avignon.

2666 The end of the world.