with Marie Christine Barrault, Thierry Bosc, Nicole Dogué, Annie Mercier, Karidja Touré, Catherine Vinatier 
et Nita Alonso, Flores Cardo, Francine Champlon, Michèle Kerneïs, Dominique de Lapparent, Françoise Rémont, Marius Yelolo
and the teenagers Aliocha Delmotte, Hadrien Heaulmé, Mona

In a highly charged and intimate family setting, three generations confront each other. At the centre of the story is Marguerite (Marie Christine Barrault), a pugnacious grandmother who has reluctantly moved into a nursing home, and her overwhelmed daughter with her two temperamental teenagers. Alexander Zeldin draws on his own childhood in this intergenerational story in which old age is a trigger for the painful revival of the death of his father, whose ghost looms large. With a troupe of amateur and professional actors, Zeldin uncompromisingly (but often humorously) shares a theatrical journey to borderline states caused by the universal experience of the failure of the body and the coming of death.

Cast

set design, costumes Natasha Jenkins
light Marc Williams
sound Josh Anio Grigg
movement work Marcin Rudy
dramaturg, artistic collaborator Kenza Berrada
vocal coach Stevie Rickard
director assistant Marcus Garzon, Robin Ormond

production Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe

 

coproduction Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg,Comédie de Genève, Théâtre de Liège, Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – scène nationale.

Director

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.