Une mort dans la famille

[ A Death In The Family ]

text and direction Alexander Zeldin
associate artist
creation

duration 2h10

4 - 20 February 2021 2022

Berthier 17^e

with

Marie Christine
Barrault Thierry Bosc
Nicole Dogué
Annie Mercier
Karidja Touré
Catherine Vinatier

and
Nita Alonso
Flores Cardo
Francine Champlon
Michèle Kerneis
Dominique de Lapparent
Françoise Rémont
Marius Yelolo

and
Aliocha Delmotte
Hadrien Heaulmé
Mona
Ferdinand Redouloux

Marguerite is going to end her days in a retirement home. Her daughter and two grandsons live nearby… For the first time in his career, Alexander Zeldin will be working directly in French. The public already knows how attentive he is to the margins of contemporary society. In this project, the British director and playwright also turns his gaze « inwards », towards a grief that everyone is to experience someday. The humanity he presents on stage, confronted with the end of life, is stripped of all consoling finery. The compassion that the audience shares is felt are all the more intensely. While completing the writing of his play, the new associate artist of the Odéon will work it over with his troupe of amateurs and professionals (including Marie-Christine Barrault, to whom he has given the role of Marguerite).

duration 2h10

Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm

Previews on 26 and 27 January

Break on 30 January and 6 February

Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm

Previews on 26 and 27 January

Break on 30 January and 6 February

Shows with English surtitles on Saturdays 5, 12, 19 February

• Programme de salle Une mort dans la famille

scenography/costumes Natasha Jenkins
lights Marc Williams
music Josh Anio Grigg
choregraphy Marcin Rudy
dramaturge / artistic collaborator Kenza Berrada
assistant director Robin Ormond
costumes assistant Gaïssiry Sall
stage director's intern Marcus Garzon

design and construction of the decor Atelier de construction de l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe

production Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe coproduction Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Comédie de Genève, Théâtre de Liège, Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand

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Alexander Zeldin, born in 1985, is an internationally acclaimed British author and director. His theatrical career began with workshops and performances in a wide range of countries - Egypt, South Korea, Russia, Georgia, Italy - with people from all walks of life. He is also an assistant to Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. In 2014, he made a name for himself in the UK with Beyond Caring, presented at the National Theatre in London in 2015, and recreated in German at the Schaubühne in 2022, which tells the story of night workers in an industrial butchery. This show is the first of a trilogy, 'The Inequalities', of which the next two plays, Love and Faith, Hope and Charity were presented at the Ateliers Berthier in 2018 and 2021. In January 2022, he also created Une mort dans la famille, his first show in French, which will be revived in the 2022-23 season.

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