C'est lundi au Vieux-Co : About Jon Fosse

Two decades ago, Gabriel Dufay came across plays by Jon Fosse; both the art and, later, the artist, have changed his life. The discovery of the writer’s fruitful work combining novels, poetry, essays, and plays led him to become one of his main French translators and directors. For the first time this season, pieces by the Norwegian author and winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose plays were directed by Claude Régy, Patrice Chéreau and Thomas Ostermeier, will be performed at the Comédie-Française. To present the production, Gabriel Dufay, Didier Sandre and Marina Hands will take to the stage to discuss this author “whose theatre is full of paintings and music.” Just like music scores, his dramatic writings rely on minims – silences – and crotchets – words. “As a writer, my job is to convey what cannot be expressed. Being able to do that means being a poet. There is no use in saying what can be expressed. It's about describing the ubiquitously invisible and merging it into the text. In good plays, what is not seen, what cannot be seen, can almost be grabbed.” Discover the innermost notions of Jon Fosse’s work, an author adamant that “the act of writing is one of listening.”

VX-COLOMBIER OCT 6 AT 7 P.M.

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