L'Éveil du printemps
The Awakening of Spring
by Frank Wedekind
Directed by Clément Hervieu-Léger
Richelieu
24 June 8 July 2018
Richelieu
L'Éveil du printemps
2018-06-24 20:30:00 2018-07-08 20:30:00
On the year of the hundredth anniversary of his death, Frank Wedekind entered the Repertoire.
Like the other great plays of the author of Lulu, this one still resists all attempts of classification. The author himself referred to it as a “childish tragedy”, the life of these adolescents struggling with their nascent sexuality, confronted with the morality of a hostile adult and institutional world. In 1906, Prussian society saw it as a “pornographic” work, which it censored, before Wedekind came to be recognised, in Brecht’s words, as “one of the great educators of modern Europe”. Freud analysed him from a psychoanalytical point of view, followed by Lacan. The author, who has become emblematic of German expressionist theatre, for his part favours a form of “sunny innocence”.
After dealing with the question of desire and social conventions through Molière’s Misanthrope and then Marivaux’s Le Petit-Maître corrigé, Clément Hervieu-Léger continues to progress through the centuries, while the protagonists have rejuvenated and embody an entire generation. He has put together a team that, among others, includes Richard Peduzzi, the great master of scenography whom he met while working on Patrice Chéreau productions. Sensitive to these carnal awakenings, when nature suddenly erupts, they have focused on the “climates” peculiar to that age when life is unknown and forbidden, a space of play and fantasy.
Duration
2h45 without intermission
Venue
Creative team
Staging: Clément Hervieu-Léger
Translation: François Regnault
Scenography: Richard Peduzzi
Costumes: Caroline de Vivaise
Lights: Bertrand Couderc
Original music: Pascal Sangla
Sound****: Jean-Luc Ristord
Make-up and hairstyling****: David Carvalho Nunes
Artistic collaboration****: Frédérique Plain
Assistant scenography: Laure Montagné
Distribution
the company
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Rebecca
MarderThea
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The Comédie-Française Academy
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Matthieu
AstreHelmuth
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Robin
GoupilRobert et Reinhold
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Aude
RouanetLa mère Schmidt
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Juliette
DamyIna Müller
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Alexandre
SchorderetDiethelm
Calendar
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2018-06-24 20:30:00
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2018-06-25 20:30:00
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2018-06-28 20:30:00
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2018-07-06 20:30:00
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2018-07-08 20:30:00
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Gallery
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Julien Frison
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Julien Frison, Jean Chevalier, Rebecca Marder, Georgia Scalliet, Pauline Clément, Robin Goupil, Gaël Kamilindi
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Georgia Scalliet, Pauline Clément, Rebecca Marder, Christophe Montenez, Sébastien Pouderoux
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Sébastien Pouderoux, Georgia Scalliet
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Christophe Montenez
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Aude Rouanet, Matthieu Astre, Robin Goupil, Jean Chevalier, Julien Frison, Gaël Kamilindi
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Éric Génovèse, Clotilde de Bayser
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Jean Chevalier, Sébastien Pouderoux
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Sébastien Pouderoux
L'Éveil du printemps 17/18
Georgia Scalliet, Cécile Brune