Cast :
Vincent Dissez,
Philippe Duclos,
Stéphanie Marc,
Alix Riemer,
Matthieu Sampeur,
Émilien Tessier

children (alterning) :
Clément Baudouin,
Sacha Huyghe,
Eliott Le Mouël

Melisande appears one day in the land of Allemond, unexpectedly. Why marry Golaud ? Why have this fatal love for Pelleas ? Tragedy is here a fundamental tone for existence. One can neither see content nor boundaries of things, words seem both transparent and opaque…
Before being an opera piece, Pelleas et Melissande is a play that went down in history, marking the launch of the symbolist movement on stage. In order to recreate the evocative magic of Maeterlinck, Julie Duclos combines the ressources of the theatre and cinema, opens up ranges on distant glimpses, building rooms over crypts as dark as the forests of the unconscious.

Cast

production Compagnie L’In-quarto
coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe

Director

Actress and director Julie Duclos trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (class of 2010). She presented her first show there: Fragments d'un discours amoureux, based on a play by Roland Barthes. In 2012, she created Masculin/ Féminin, a work in progress in which the boundaries between reality and fiction are freely explored. Two years later she reunited with the same group of actors to direct (in collaboration with Guy-Patrick Sainderichin) Nos Serments, based on Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain, at the Théâtre national de la Colline. It was also at La Colline, where she was associate artist from 2015 to 2017, that she staged MayDay, by Dorothée Zumstein (2015) and Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck (2019), which premiered at the Avignon Festival. The show is presented at the Odéon in 2020, where she returns two years later with Lars Norén's Kliniken. Julie Duclos is an associate artist at the Théâtre national de Bretagne in Rennes.