Auborddugouffre

2011

“Lucille Calmel is known for her double plays, her double commas and her back and forth between the Internet and performance. With auborddugouffre, based on the book Close to the knives by Wojnarowicz, Lucille Calmel returns to the printed text. Return to directing too (with Matthias Beyler watching attentively) after an American journey in the footsteps of the New York writer. Return to the theater, therefore, this time at a distance from the flow, but not from the wifi and the code, raw material of Philippe Boisnard, associated with the project with Thierry Coduys for interactivity, Jean-François Blanquet for sound and Gaëtan Rusquet for scenography . In the room, Lucille Calmel writes – co-written in the role of Wojnarowicz – while on set, three actors/performers take over her world. » Simona Polvani

The scenography proposed by Gaëtan Rusquet is a fragmented space, quadrifrontal, using the raw location. The brick walls, tarpaulins and scaffolding protection nets, and the concrete floor serve as a projection surface for videos broadcasting archives, text material and monochrome surfaces. Flashing fluorescent tubes evoke and fantasize industrial spaces, gay cruising spots in New York in the 80s. The lights, accessories and space are manipulated on sight.

Drawing of a house on fire with red posca on a back / video tracking shot of a toy car on a body-landscape / blue cowboy masturbating / cluster of portable lamps / worker gesture, erotic / sorbets in the shape of the letters D.A.V.I.D. / milk flowing from the mouth / Electric buzz from a fluorescent tube / chicken fisted and burst, amplified sound, piezo contact microphone / etc…

CREDITS
Director Lucille Calmel Distribution Sébastien Lenthéric, Mathias Varenne Artistic collaboration Mathias Beyler Sound design Jean-François Blanquet Scenography & performance Gaëtan Rusquet scenography/stage Assistant Octavie Piéron Interactivity advisor Thierry Coduys Coding Philippe Boisnard Dramaturgy assistant Judith Ribardière Graphic design Axelle Carruzzo Photos Sébastien Devaux Production & diffusion Sylvia Botella A creation by when i’m good i’m very good but when i’m bad i’m better co-produced by le Théâtre Les Tanneurs Production France U-StructureNouvelle with the help for the creation from the Conseil de l’Aide aux Projets Théâtraux / Service général des Arts de la scène et à la production de la Commission des arts numériques, Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique With the support from Agence Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse, La Bellone, Maison du Spectacle dans le cadre du Cycle des Monstrations, manège.mons/CECN, Centre des Arts Scéniques, Centre National des Écritures du Spectacle – La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, Montévidéo – créations contemporaines, théâtre, musique, écriture et Smartbe Programm winner from CulturesFrance Hors les Murs 2010 in the U.S.A. Thanks to Cindy Carr, Sylvere Lotringer, Tom Rauffenbart, Marion Scemama, Laurence Viallet, la Fales Library et PPOW Gallery à New York.

SHOWS
15.03.11 > 19.03.11 - les Tanneurs Theater, Brussels (BE)

PRESS
https://writingmachines.org/auborddugouffre-lucille-calmel/
https://www.theatre-contemporain.net/spectacles/Auborddugouffre/?path=spectacles/Auborddugouffre