cast
Sharif Andoura
Éric Challier
Teddy Chawa
Pep Garrigues
François Godart
Camille Lucas
Édith Mérieau
Judith Morisseau
Catherine Morlot
Adrien Rouyard


musicians
Guy-Loup Boisneau
Émile Carlioz
Clotilde Lacroix
Romain Louveau

How do we find our way around in ethical matters? According to Tiphaine Raffier, theatre is « the one place that can both separate and reconcile people », where the needs and urgencies of concrete life can be measured at leisure against moral standards. In her new play, inspired by Kieslowski's Decalogue, she imagines situations that put to the test some of the norms and guidelines of human action. These situations illustrate and discuss nine of the fifteen Christian « works of mercy », offering as many occasions to scrutinize "the archaic or contemporary moral dilemmas and anxieties that we are faced with".

Cast

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

Director

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.