Théâtre National de Bretagne
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SPLENDID'S, CREATION ON ZOOM — LIVE
JEAN GENET / ARTHUR NAUZYCIEL
Running time 1h50
Performed in English
Running time 1h50
Performed in English
Splendid’s (2015) is a sensual and spectral work founded on an aesthetic research between theatre and cinema. The story centres on seven gangsters who, having kidnapped the daughter of an American billionaire, have barricaded themselves in the Splendid’s Hotel.
Since the creation of Julius Caesar in the United States in 2008, Arthur Nauzyciel has been working with the same team of American actors, joined for Splendid’s by Xavier Gallais and Jeanne Moreau.
In March 2020, however, the borders were closed. For a long time the government quarantine made it impossible for artists and their work to tour. Hard hit by the consequences of the shutdown in the United States, and with few prospects to work, the original cast of Splendid’s made the connection between their predicament and the play’s scenario: confinement, an exterior threat, solitude. In order to escape their oppressive reality, the actors – like the gangsters who need to invent another life for themselves to bear all the isolation and waiting – decided to retell Genet’s text using a video conferencing platform. Over the next two months they worked with Arthur Nauzyciel to adapt the performance to this new digital approach.
Running time 1h50
Performed in English
'No doubt, we're in the theater, and he's alive. The actors are breathtaking in this complex exercise.' – toutelaculture.com
Text
JEAN GENET
Direction
ARTHUR NAUZYCIEL
English translation
NEIL BARTLETT
Assistant director
RAPHAËL HABERBERG
Screen manager
DANIEL PETTROW
Sound manager
FLORENT DALMAS
Video manager
CHARLES LEFEBVRE (TNB)
Technical coordination
ILJA FONTAINE / PANTHEA
Subtitles
BERTILLE KAPELA
Artistic collaborators
RICCARDO HERNáNDEZ, DAMIEN JALET, JOSÉ LEVY, SCOTT ZIELINSKI, XAVIER JACQUOT
Photographs and film around creation
FRÉDÉRIC NAUCZYCIEL
On screen
DAVID BARLOW
JARED CRAIG
XAVIER GALLAIS
ISMAÏL IBN CONNER
MICHAEL LAURENCE
RUDY MUNGARAY
DANIEL PETTROW
TIMOTHY SEKK
and the voice of
JEANNE MOREAU
Production : Théâtre National de Bretagne