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Alex Legrand
Nathalie Fillion
Alex Legrand
BM. Palazon - Juliette Steimer, Sylvain Creuzevault
Actes du théâtre n° 21.[ imprimer ]
Alex Legrand has just written a provocative book in which he settles some scores with his family. The book is coming out today. The play begins today. Alex is in a total state of panic. His parents are about to arrive at his house. They know nothing about their son’s book or that he has assassinated them in a work of fiction. In real life, they are just coming over for tea to meet his fiancée, Annabel Lee.

“She writes texts for voices. Her inventive language follows her instinct for words, using clashing writing styles the better to shake up our ordinary grammar and create an open space for new ways of speaking.”
Anne Quentin, La Scène, March 2005

“Alex Legrand makes a case for the complexity of human relationships without judging or condemning. It is also a story about words that are spoken or withheld, and words that are life-creating or life-condemning.”
Nathalie Fillion

Théâtre du Lucernaire, 19 January - 18 March 2006; at the Théâtre
de Cachan, during the Théâtrales-Rencontres Charles Dullin
on 10 & 11 March 2006. On tour until 2007. First staged on 14 October 2004.
Director: Nathalie Fillion. Assistant: Valérie Castel Jord. Scenography
and costumes: Charlotte Villerm. Lighting: Denis Desanglois.
Sound: Walid Breidi. Cast: Sylvain Creuzevault, Chantal Deruaz,
Philippe Frécon, Juliette Steimer, Hervé Van der Meulen.

Characters : 2 women - 3 men -
Éditions L’Harmattan.

JONATHAN You really don’t look well, Alex. Are you all right?
ALEX No, no. It’s my parents.
JONATHAN What about your parents? Is there some problem?
ALEX Yes.
JONATHAN A serious one?
ANNABEL He killed them.
JONATHAN Shit.
ANNABEL With his book.
[…]
JONATHAN It’s no big deal.
ANNABEL Yes it is. He’s betrayed them, thrown them to the lions.
JONATHAN How so?
ALEX In explosive prose. You know my father.
JONATHAN What did he say to you?
ALEX Nothing at all.
JONATHAN So what’s the problem?
ANNABEL There is no problem. It’s just a tragedy. There’s no problem. They’re coming over now for no reason, just to see, it’s not connected, has nothing to do with it, just to see me, for the first time, to see how I look in my golden coat on the bridge of Nantes, there’s a ball, fair Helen, do you know her? Alex thinks my existence can help him face him.
JONATHAN Face who? What did they say to you? What’s the problem? I don’t understand.
ALEX Nothing, nothing at all. There is no problem. They said nothing to me. They know nothing. Well, I don’t know what they know. I know nothing. They said nothing to me, so I don’t know. I said nothing to them. Perhaps they know nothing. Certainly if I tell them nothing. But now there’s the book. They know everything about me. I don’t know what I should say. I don’t know if I should say anything to anyone – to them – or not. Not like this anyway. Even to you. I don’t even know why I telling you this. Actually, I have nothing to say. Actually, I’ve said everything. I’m knackered. I’m sorry.
JONATHAN What about a pseudonym?
ANNABEL That’s weak and cowardly. It’s anonymous. You have to sign your crime.