with Clara Bretheau, Eric Challier, Maxime Dambrin, Judith Derouin, Juliet Doucet, François Godart, Alexandre Gonin, Maika Louakairim, Tom Menanteau, Hélène Patarot, Edith Proust, Stuart Seide, Adrien Serre
and the musicians from the Ensemble Miroirs Etendus Clément Darlu (Piano), Emmanuel Jacquet (drums and percussion), Lucas Ounissi (Trombone), Clémence Sarda (Double bass), Claire Voisin (Clarinet)
with the participation of the Choeur d'enfants du Conservatoire de Saint-Denis
Suzanne, Anouchka, Félicie, Zoé, Gift, Blessing, Maïa, Jetro, Liyanie, Mahaut, Hajar, Martha, Hannah, Nouha, Zoé, Maud, Paloma, Léonie, Alice, Maïa, Maë, Thaïs, Anna, Calie (alternately)

direction Erwan Picquet

1944: Bucky Cantor, a young gym teacher from the Jewish community of Newark, is declared unfit for military service. Meanwhile, his friends are landing heroically on the coast of Normandy. When a polio epidemic strikes Newark, could this be Bucky’s opportunity for a tragic destiny? Unfortunately, Nemesis, the goddess who punishes human excess, makes up for Bucky’s sacrifice. Tiphaine Raffier is fascinated by Philip Roth's nonconformity, by his sharp irony, and his talent for parables. After directing La réponse des Hommes last year, she has taken on this novel with the dystopian creativity that characterises her work.

Cast

assistant to the stage director Lucas Samain
music Guillaume Bachelé
musical arrangements Pierre Marescaux and Clément Darlu
set design Hélène Jourdan assisted by Alice Girardet
lighting Kelig Le Bars
video Pierre Martin Oriol
sound Hugo Hamman
costumes design Caroline Tavernier assisted by Valérie Simonneau
collective choreography directed by Pep Garrigues
HMU Judith Scotto assisted by Emmanuelle Flisseau
english coach Sophie Decaudaveine
children's choir coordinator Victoria Molland
technical director Olivier Floury
set management Marinette Jullien
cameraman Raphaël Oriol
HMU management Emmanuelle Flisseau or Florence Louné
 
 
administration, production Véronique Atlan Fabre, Juliette Chambaud, Charlotte Pesle Beal

 

production La femme coupée en deux

coproduction (in progress) Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne, Théâtre de Lorient – CDN de Bretagne, Comédie de Béthune, Théâtre de la Cité – CDN de Toulouse-Occitanie, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Théâtre du Nord - CDN Lille Tourcoing Hauts-de-France, Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, La Rose des vents – Scène nationale de Lille-Métropole Villeneuve d’Ascq, Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre, Le phénix – Scène Nationale de Valenciennes, Miroirs Étendus, Scène nationale 61 – Alençon


with the support of the Ministry of Culture
 

With the Hermes Foundation, as part of its New Settings program.

 

with the Jeune Théâtre National



with the support of the National Theater of Brittany Employment Fund

residency Malakoff scène nationale

with the patronage of the Cercle de l’Odéon

 

Nemesis Copyright © 2010, Philip Roth - All rights reserved
Némésis, Translation Marie-Claire Pasquier © Editions Gallimard

Biographie de 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.