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Impasse des anges Alain Gautré | | photo : Lawrence Perquis |
| | | ``It`s like Schnitzler`s Merry-Go-Round, a Barnum Circus of sex. But, in the end, it doesn`t come full circle like it does in the Austrian playwright`s work, because the carrousel machinery is jammed here.
The play opens on a scene in a peep-show. A young woman trying to satisfy her curiosity ends up in a sauna where, after making love, two strangers evoke a terrible family secret that has brought them together.
They fuck in every scene here, or have just done so, or are getting ready to. Slices of life, with love on display. 18 snapshots of failed amorous encounters, a tragicomedy of sexual intimacy, fragments of our compartmentalized lives.
Impasse des Anges is a reflection and amplification of all this, a modern world at the edge of the abyss, striving through sex - among a thousand possible answers - for confirmation that there really is someone staring back at us in the mirror.``
Alain Gautré
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| ``Impasse des Anges is a funereal ballet in which sex is the mask.
Each of them is trying to resolve his confusion or dissatisfaction.
It`s a dark comedy.
You laugh a lot, because the author`s tenderness for his characters puts them into preposterous yet somehow plausible situations, where you can see these human beings fighting for an ounce of happiness.
Couples are formed and break up in every scene, in one evening or over a lifetime.
All the moreso because sex has now intruded upon all aspects of life, or at any rate its image - sex as merchandise. Intimacy has been contaminated.
Sex separate from life is perceived as a place of performance, resolution, consolidation, colonization, and confirmation.
We have never been so alone while in the process of exchanging.
And yet Impasse des Anges shows a human side that is specific to Alain Gautré`s plays, in which humor makes the darkness lighter by being revealed.``
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| Opens at the Théâtre de la Tempête on 19 March through 18 April 2010. At the Théâtre Georges Leygues in Villeneuve-sur-Lot on 18 and 19 June 2010.Directed by the playwright. Set design: Alain Gautré and Orazio Trotta. Lighting: Orazio Trotta. Costumes: Catherine Oliveira. Make-up: Céline Fayret. Sound design: Sébastien Trouvé. Artistic collaboration: Jérémie Bédrune.
Cast: Jérémie Bédrune, Julien Cigana, Karyll Elgrichi, Florence Fichot, Blanche Leleu, Teddy Mélis, Aurélie Messié.
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| Characters : 9 women - 9 men - can be performed by 3 women, 3 men
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