ON NE BADINE PAS AVEC L'AMOUR
FROM DECEMBER, 1ST 2009 TO MARCH, 31 2010
For Le Vilain Petit Théâtre, its residency at the CENTQUATRE is synonymous with "interactive rehearsals". Every day, occupying different spaces in the passageways, the troupe will offer visitors the opportunity of a more or less ephemeral encounter with the theatre. It will allow spectators to be present at what is traditionally hidden from them: the "rehearsal" in the true sense. Opening up the work of creation to the public, with all its hesitations, questionings and fresh starts, is completely in line with the research process the group is engaged in. These "interactive rehearsals" set out to be a space for discussion with the spectators as a means of sharing thinking about the audience and the stage space in the theatre.
This work was initiated in 2007 by a first open-air show where the actors mingled with the public: "Les Démons de Cromwell" after Victor Hugo. In 2009, the spectators were placed less than two metres from the actors at a bifrontal show inspired by Lutz Bassmann’s "Haïkus de prison".
In 2008, a short theatrical form, "Spectracte 1", was enacted for many months in the Jardins d’Eole, and after the meeting with the children of the district, in the CENTQUATRE.
Until March 31st, The Vilain Petit Théâtre are creating "On ne badine pas avec l’amour" from Alfred de Musset. The spectator follow the installation of an entire show, from the first improvisations unto the first performances.
BIOGRAPHY
Le Vilain Petit Théâtre is a troupe formed by some the first graduates in theatre of the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines. Its work forms part of a research process looking at theatre space and theatre audiences.
Led by its founders, François Barouch (dramaturge), Keti Irubetagoyena (director) and Louise Roux (actress), all three of them working on theses on Theatre Studies, Le Vilain Petit Théâtre abandons the frontal stage/auditorium relationship in favour of multi-sided proximity.
