Électre / Oreste
"Electra / Orestes"
by Euripide
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Richelieu
25 October 2019 - 16 February 2020
Richelieu
Électre / Oreste
2019-10-25 20:30:00 2020-02-16 20:30:00
Warning: Some scenes may offend the audience.
Last season, Ivo van Hove returned to the Comédie-Française for a new epic recounting an entire episode – the final one – in the story of the house of Atreus, in a production that marked the entry into the Repertoire of Euripides’ Electra and Orestes. Stating that all his projects are born from “love at first sight” for a text, he combined the two plays to tell, in its continuity, the tale of this brother and sister who unite in taking revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus who murdered their father Agamemnon. The two children were banished following the deed. Orestes was sent into exile while Electra was forced to marry a peasant living in poverty on the edge of the city. Fifteen years later, Aegisthus, who now reigns in Argos, calls for Orestes to be put to death. This is where Electra/Orestes begins, when the latter, obeying an oracle of Apollo, decides to return to his homeland to find his sister and avenge their father’s death with her.
Known for his ability to “unfold” texts on stage, the artistic director of the International Theater Amsterdam constantly renews his aesthetic and his relationship with actors. Claiming to have no designated method, here he draws on the ancient sources to celebrate theatre as a social event and takes hold of the myth with a keen sense of its modernity. Thus, in the brother and sister’s murderous destiny he reads the same mechanisms of radicalisation he already analysed in Visconti’s Les Damnés [The Damned]: “what really moves me, and what is common to the two stories, is that you see these young people – Martin and Gunther in Les Damnés, Electra, Orestes and Pylades in Electra/Orestes – plunging into the most extreme violence for reasons relating to their inner feelings, far from any ideology. This story is like an irrational inferno.”
French translation published by Éditions Gallimard, collection Folio théâtre
Duration
2:00 (without intermission)
Venue
Creative team
Translation: Marie Delcourt-Curvers
Scenic version: Bart Van den Eynde et Ivo van Hove
Directed by: Ivo van Hove
Scenography and lights: Jan Versweyveld
Costumes: An D’Huys
Original music and sound concept: Eric Sleichim
Choreographic work: Wim Vandekeybus
Dramaturgy: Bart Van den Eynde
Assistant stage manager: Laurent Delvert
Assistant scenography: Roel Van Berckelaer
Assistant costumes: Sylvie Lombart
Assistant lights: François Thouret
Assistant sound: Pierre Routin
Assistant choreographic work: Laura Aris
Distribution
the company
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Rebecca
MarderHermione (alternately)
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The Comédie-Française Academy
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Mickaël
PelissierÉgisthe
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Salomé
Benchimolle Chœur (alternately)
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Aksel
Carrezle Chœur
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Flora
Chéreaule Chœur
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Camille
Seitzle Chœur (alternately)
Pauline Chabrol: le Chœur (alternately)
Glysleïn Lefever: le Chœur (alternately)
Olivier Lugo: le Chœur (alternately)
Noémie Pasteger: le Chœur (alternately)
Sabine Petit: le Chœur ((alternately)
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Trio Xenakis: Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet, Rodolphe Théry
Othman Louati
Romain Maisonnasse
Benoît Maurin
percussion (alternately)
Singer voice: Sylvia Bergé
Calendar
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Gallery
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Claude Mathieu, Christophe Montenez, Loïc Corbery, Suliane Brahim, Elsa Lepoivre
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Christophe Montenez, Suliane Brahim Benjamin Lavernhe
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Éric Génovèse
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Loïc Corbery, Christophe Montenez, Sulinae Brahim et Peio Berterretche
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Christophe Montenez, Didier Sandre
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Suliane Brahim, Christophe Montenez
Électre / Oreste 18/19
Cécile Brune, Sylvia Bergé, Noémie Pasteger, Pauline Chabrol, Suliane Brahim, Olivier Lugo, Julie Sicard et Léa Schweitzer