Haute surveillance
by Jean Genet
Directed by Cédric Gourmelon
Studio
16 September 29 October 2017
Studio
Haute surveillance
2017-09-16 18:30:00 2017-10-29 18:30:00
“It is a black diamond” states Cédric Gourmelon about Haute surveillance (Deathwatch), Jean Genet’s first play. Genet began writing it in Fresnes prison in 1942 under the title Pour la belle, and reworked it until the end of his life in 1985.
It features the mythology that runs through all his work and surrounds his life: the fascination for criminals, masculinity, self-realisation, fate and desire. The action focuses on three young prisoners. The first, named Yeux Verts (Green Eyes), acharismatic figure, is a “true”murderer venerated by two delinquents, Maurice, with his angel face and troubling beauty, and Lefranc, the only one in the cell who is not illiterate and therefore has the privilege of reading and writing the correspondence between Yeux Verts and his wife –the absent figure who is the common object of fantasy.
It required a enthusiast and an accomplished practitioner of Genet’s work to stage this dense and poetic drama restricted to the confines of a prison cell. Cédric Gourmelon has already staged Splendid’s, Le Funambule and Le Condamné à mort, a poem set to music by Étienne Daho. Haute surveillance is one of his favourite texts, which he is directing for the third time in this production. He leads theactors of the Troupe into the underside of this text, which demands an intense physical commitment. Together, they grapple with the unique style of an author who gives voice, and a form of nobility, to bad boys like himself banished from society. There lies the immense talent of Genet’s theatre: “it is polite with regard to matter, it gives song to that which was mute”.
Creative team
Staging: Cédric Gourmelon
Scenography: Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy
Costumes: Cidalia Da Costa
Lights: Arnaud Lavisse
Assistant stage manager: Morgann Cantin-Kermarrec
Distribution
the company
Calendar
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2017-09-16 18:30:00
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Gallery
Haute surveillance 17/18
Jérémy Lopez, Sébastien Pouderoux, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Christophe Montenez
Haute surveillance 17/18
Pierre Louis-Calixte, Sébastien Pouderoux
Haute surveillance 17/18
Jérémy Lopez, Sébastien Pouderoux
Haute surveillance 17/18
Jérémy Lopez, Christophe Montenez
Haute surveillance 17/18
Sébastien Pouderoux, Christophe Montenez