"ROMÉO ET JULIETTE" BY SHAKESPEARE
& "LE BANNISSEMENT" BY JACQUES ALBERT
FROM APRIL, 1ST TO MAY, 31 2010
This residency provides the Espace commun company with the opportunity to prepare a project centred on Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" and a play currently being written, "Le Bannissement" by Jacques Albert.
The two plays are in dialogue with one another, "Le Bannissement" as a play implicit in Shakespeare’s tragedy.
The new text is neither a continuation nor a rewriting, but a play in its own right, taking certain thematic or structural elements of the classic play as its departure points. This working period aims primarily to be a time of experimentation. The residency will involve juxtaposing and comparing the two pieces of writing, and will alternate between writing, joint readings, dramaturgical work, openings to other fields and disciplines, and rehearsals.
"Romeo and Juliet" and "Le Bannissement" are being presented simultaneously, in two separate spaces and for two different audiences, but by the same troupe of actors. Working on the off-screen and diffraction, the residency at the CENTQUATRE is a stage in a protracted creative process, involving Alice Houri, Emmanuelle Ramu, Vladislav Galard, Alexandre Pallu, Sébastien Pouderoux, Antoine Mathieu, Grégoire Tachnakian…
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assistant: Oisin Stack / space: Virginie Mira / administration/production: Claire Guièze (le petit bureau).
www.troiscentsoixante.org
BIOGRAPHY
Julien Fisera was born in 1978 at Portsmouth in Great Britain, with joint French and British nationality. After studying art history, literature and drama at the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as in London and Austin, USA, specialising in contemporary writing, Julien turned to directing, after working as a playwright and artistic collaborator.
He wrote his first play B.MANIA in 2008.
As an introduction into the work of a director, since 2002 Julien has collaborated with the following directors: Julie Bérès, Robert Cantarella, Hubert Colas, Christophe Huysman, Joël Jouanneau, Frédéric Maragnani, Arnaud Meunier, Jean-Marie Patte and Philippe Minyana.
Julien created the Espace commun theatre company in 2005. After a residency at Mains D’Oeuvres in Saint-Ouen in 2008, in 2010 the company is in residence at the CENTQUATRE in Paris.
