La Conférence des objets
"The Object Conference"
Written and directed by Christine Montalbetti
Studio
28 November 2019 - 5 January 2020
Studio
La Conférence des objets
2019-11-28 18:30:00 2020-01-05 18:30:00
“We are objects and tonight a few of us are going to break out of our silence. We have some things to tell you.”
This is how an apple peeler addresses the audience in the prologue to Christine Montalbetti’s new play. AfterLe Bruiteur [The Sound Technician], staged in 2017 at the Studio-Théâtre, she has written this Conférence des Objets for five actors of the Troupe. In her novels, she likes to make breaches in the narrative, suddenly expressing strong emotions and grave sentiments through an inanimate being. Here she develops this device throughout an entire play. To achieve a sense of naturalness in the embodiment of the object, she has her own imagination converge with that of the performers.
Alongside the Apple Peeler-Hervé Pierre, the Sewing Box-Claude Mathieu, the Umbrella-Pierre Louis-Calixte, the Amulet-Bakary Sangaré and the Lamp-Anna Cervinka engage in dialogues or monologues on their condition of servitude. Each one gives life to “their” object. In this space of freedom offered to them both by the absence of their “owners” and the act of speaking out, they confide their desire for revolt, their glorious or unknown origins, their dissatisfactions or the different life they dream of having. We hear their affection for the person who saved them from the attic, but also the abuse they suffer and the savage violence of which they are capable: who has not almost been killed by an umbrella rib? The strength of this existential fantasy is to never deviate from the point of view of these unconventional characters. Because the challenge, a very serious one at that, is to renew our perception of what surrounds us, to re-enchant our relationship with the material world.
NEW PRODUCTION
Duration
1h
Venue
Creative team
Staging and costumes: Christine Montalbetti
Scenography : Éric Ruf
Lights: Catherine Verheyde
Artistic collaboration: Gilles Kneusé
Distribution
the company
Calendar
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Gallery
La Conférence des objets 19/20
Hervé Pierre
La Conférence des objets 19/20
Anna Cervinka et Claude Mathieu
La Conférence des objets 19/20
Pierre Louis-Calixte et Bakary Sangaré