Marcus Lindeen
Piano Man
conceived with Marianne Ségol
novembernov 12 – 22
© Jean Louis Fernandez ©
© Jean Louis Fernandez ©
© Jean-Louis Fernandez ©
Bus
159, 160, 259, 304 - Joliot-Curie - Courbevoie
159, 259 - Théâtre des Amandiers
Vélib
Station Théâtre des Amandiers – Palais des sports
Metro
Ligne 1 : La Défense
En RER
Ligne A - Nanterre-Préfecture
Ligne E - Nanterre-la-Folie
Thursday november 12
19h30
Friday november 13
19h30
Saturday november 14
18h30
Sunday november 15
15h30
Tuesday november 17
19h30
Wednesday november 18
19h30
Thursday november 19
19h30
Friday november 20
19h30
Saturday november 21
18h30
Sunday november 22
15h30
Text and direction Marcus Lindeen. Concept Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol. Dramaturgy and translation Marianne Ségol. With Nans Laborde-Jourdàa, Niranjani Iyer, Anthony Bambury and Bridget O’Loughlin. Music and sound design Hans Appelqvist. Set design Hélène Jourdan. Costume Angèle Gaspar. Lighting Diane Guerin. Video Hans Appelqvist and Marcus Lindeen. Sound Nicolas Brusq. Casting Lola Diane. General stage management David Marain. Video operation Xing Weì. Voices David Houry, Manon Clavel, Julie Pilot, Julien Lewkowitz and Marianne Ségol. Assistant director and dramaturgy Louison Ryser.
The set and costumes are made by the workshops of TNS — Théâtre national de Strasbourg.
Production Wild Minds
Co-production (in progress) TNS—Théâtre national de Strasbourg; CDN d’Orléans; Célestins—Théâtre de Lyon; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the Institut Français de Suède
With the assistance of the Jeune Théâtre National
With the guidance of the Centre des Récits
Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol are associate artists at the CDN d’Orléans
Marianne Ségol is an associate artist at the META—CDN de Poitiers and the Nouveau Théâtre de Besançon, national drama centre
The Festival d’Automne à Paris is a co-producer of this performance and presents it in corealisation with Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers — CDN.
Drawing upon a newspaper story of an extraordinary kind, that of the appearance on a beach of a man suffering from amnesia, Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol continue their work in the field of documentary theatre. With a mixture of precision and philosophy, they probe into the spoken words that underlie narratives.
A true story that starts like a film borrowed straight from science fiction. In 2005, a man is washed up on the shores of the Isle of Sheppey, in the UK county of Kent, dressed in a soaking-wet, dark suit. He states that he knows neither who he is, nor how he came to be there. When confronted with the doctors from the hospital he is transferred to, he continues to remain silent. And then one day, the plot thickens: after a few sketchy drawings of a piano, he is given the opportunity to play the instrument. His virtuosity is such that he earns himself the nickname "The Piano Man". The press gets its teeth firmly stuck into his story and a whole host of outlandish hypotheses ensue, each equally as far from the truth as the other. Marcus Lindeen, from Sweden, best known for his documentary brand of theatre based on an aesthetic of a radical kind, set off for the shores of South-East England in order to carry out his own enquiries into what remains of this story which so fascinates him. Alongside Marianne Ségol, who was responsible for the original concept, as well as the dramaturgy and translation, he brings to the stage four characters whose paths crossed with those of this man of mystery. He sets out to get to grips with the phenomenon of the media frenzy, itself deeply revelatory of our instinctive capacity for shaping stories—and in doing so, perhaps, to understand what this “Piano Man” says about himself, and us.
Bus
159, 160, 259, 304 - Joliot-Curie - Courbevoie
159, 259 - Théâtre des Amandiers
Vélib
Station Théâtre des Amandiers – Palais des sports
Metro
Ligne 1 : La Défense
En RER
Ligne A - Nanterre-Préfecture
Ligne E - Nanterre-la-Folie