My Cold Room

After several resoundingly successful seasons performing at the Bouffes du Nord, Joel Pommerat has honored us by working with our theatrical structure as an associate artist. It is here at the Odeon theater that he will pursue his work, one whose reputation has grown steadily and whose audience has remained remarkably faithful, literally following the playwright/director from one play to the next. Trying to guess what his new play will be makes no sense at all. Who after all, can say with certitude where he or she will be in a year’s time, what point in our existence we will have reached ? Let us leave the artist to work on his project in silence, and in the meantime, let us borrow these words from him : « The spectator is not an intruder. He is in fact essential, if he shows up at the right moment. It is the spectator who offers the gesture and the words to the play…one cannot do theater, one cannot have the experience of this search for being, without the gaze of « the other ». This is what is both beautiful, and impure. »