Chanson douce
Lullaby
By Leïla Slimani
Directed by Pauline Bayle
Studio
14 March 28 April 2019
Studio
Chanson douce
2019-03-14 18:30:00 2019-04-28 18:30:00
Drawing on her customary skill in constructing intrigues, Pauline Bayle takes hold of "Chanson douce", a tragic fable, to offer a variation on the figure of the monster and its ambivalences.
In adapting this novel, winner of the 2016 Prix Goncourt, Pauline Bayle –who came to attention for her stagings of The Iliad and The Odyssey– delves into the most contemporary intimacy after three years spent working on the great founding myths. Inspired by events that occurred in New York in 2012, Chanson douce [Lullaby] tells the story of Louise, who is hired as a babysitter by a hipster Parisian couple, becomes an essential part of their home and, not long after, murders their children. What drove the Mary Poppins-like nanny, immediately adopted by the children and adored by the parents, to commit this crime? How did she manage to make herself indispensable and how did the relationship of dependency become reversed and close in on her? The character of the nanny gives the director the opportunity to approach a central figure in the theatrical repertoire that recurs from Aeschylus and Euripides to Jean Genet’s The Maids. Louise’s story is the perfect mix between Flaubert’s tale, A Simple Heart, one of her bedside books, and the fate of Medea. According to Pauline Bayle, the novel’s impact stems from the fact that it is free from sentimentality and never black and white. In Louise, a sort of ogress of disconcerting fragility, and the parents, torn between the utopia of family happiness and the desire for professional fulfillment, she finds modern characters who redefine the codes of the master-slave relationship. Beyond anecdote, she highlights the irony inherent to this unfiltered depiction of our worst nightmare occurring when we assume people are generally good. Drawing on her customary skill in constructing intrigues, she takes hold of this tragic fable to offer a variation on the figure of the monster and its ambivalences.
NEW PRODUCTION
Venue
Creative team
Adaptation et staging: Pauline Bayle
Scenography: Pauline Bayle et Gaspard Pinta
Costumes: Bernadette Villard
Lights: Pascal Noël
Artistic collaboration****: Isabelle Antoine
Distribution
the company
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Florence
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Viala -
Sébastien
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Pouderoux -
Anna
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Cervinka
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Gallery
Chanson douce 18/19
Florence Viala, Anna Cervinka, Sébastien Pouderoux
Chanson douce 18/19
Sébastien Pouderoux, Florence Viala, Anna Cervinka
Chanson douce 18/19
Sébastien Pouderoux, Anna Cervinka, Florence Viala
Chanson douce 18/19
Sébastien Pouderoux, Florence Viala, Anna Cervinka
Chanson douce 18/19
Florence Viala