Mélanie Leray / Pierre Maillet Lars Norén
La Veillée
[Theatre]
Lars Norén’s keen, absurd and extreme writing reveals the destructive power of our neuroses in his virtually naturalist plays, the result of his long immersion in places of exclusion and family units.
This world behind closed doors features two brothers, brought together by their mother’s death, and their wives. Alcohol and fatigue push them over the edge into hysteria.
Credits
La Veillée
by Lars Norén
Translated by Amélie Berg
Directed by Mélanie Leray, Pierre Maillet
Lighting design: Ronan Cabon
With Pierre Hiessler, Mélanie Leray, Vincent Voisin, Valérie Schwarcz
Produced by the Théâtre des Lucioles and Echo Théâtre
With support from the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Bretagne; Le Conseil Régional de Bretagne,
Le Conseil Général d’Ille-et-Vilaine and the City of Rennes
Co-presented by the Théâtre de la Bastille; the Théâtre de l’Agora, scène nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
With additional support from Adami
The French translation of the text was published by Arche.
