After the success of Ils nous ont oubliés, she plunges us into a show recounting the destiny of a humiliated man, thirsting for social recognition, in an American South torn apart by the Civil War and the delirium of nascent industrialization.
Ten years after Les Palmiers sauvages, Séverine Chavrier returns to the words of William Faulkner with one of his most masterful novels. Inspired by a biblical episode, this text, akin to an ancient tragedy, unfolds a multitude of narratives. Two generations apart, in the cramped confines of a room with closed shutters, the dormitory of a northern university or the back seat of a buggy, the words of the young Quentin are organized into fragmented narratives by the obsession of the man who enunciates, rehearses and recomposes the truth before our eyes (and ears), in order to understand his own, based on what the story says about him.
This puzzle gives Absalon, Absalon! a suspense, not a narrative suspense, but a spiral suspense, more enveloping, perhaps more anxiety-provoking too, a vertigo, perhaps it's the dampness of the South that descends upon us.
Running time
5h with two intermissions
for ages 14 and up
Ten years after Les Palmiers sauvages, Séverine Chavrier returns to the words of William Faulkner with one of his most masterful novels. Inspired by a biblical episode, this text, akin to an ancient tragedy, unfolds a multitude of narratives. Two generations apart, in the cramped confines of a room with closed shutters, the dormitory of a northern university or the back seat of a buggy, the words of the young Quentin are organized into fragmented narratives by the obsession of the man who enunciates, rehearses and recomposes the truth before our eyes (and ears), in order to understand his own, based on what the story says about him.
This puzzle gives Absalon, Absalon! a suspense, not a narrative suspense, but a spiral suspense, more enveloping, perhaps more anxiety-provoking too, a vertigo, perhaps it's the dampness of the South that descends upon us.
Running time
5h with two intermissions
for ages 14 and up
