Marion Siéfert, Matthieu Bareyre
Bunker
septembersept 17 – 28
octoberoct 8 – 10
octoberoct 14 – 15
decemberdec 16 – 17
© © Matthieu Bareyre ©
Metro 13 - Gabriel Péri
Bus 54, 140, 175, 177 - Place Voltaire ou bien + Lignes 235, 276, 340, 577 - Gabriel Péri
Thursday september 17
20h
Friday september 18
20h
Saturday september 19
18h
Sunday september 20
16h
Monday september 21
20h
Thursday september 24
20h
Friday september 25
20h
Saturday september 26
18h
Sunday september 27
16h
Monday september 28
20h
RER : Cité Universitaire (RER B)
Tramway : Cité Universitaire (T3)
Thursday october 8
20h
Friday october 9
20h
Saturday october 10
18h
Wednesday october 14
20h
Thursday october 15
20h
Wednesday december 16
20h
Thursday december 17
20h
Text Matthieu Bareyre and Marion Siéfert. Direction Marion Siéfert. With Janice Bieleu, Monica Budde, Lorenzo Lefebvre, Charles-Henri Wolff. Dramaturgy Matthieu Bareyre. Set design concept and production Nadia Lauro. Sound Patrick Jammes. Lighting Manon Lauriol. Costumes Chloé Courcelle. Assistant director Noa Landon. Stage manager Chloé Bouju. Stage and props manager Charlotte Arnaud. Fencing coach Didier Beddar. Acting coach Janice Bieleu and Ariane Schrack. Co-production of set elements Marie Maresca and Charlotte Wallet (animals and props), Comédie de Genève (carpentry and lighting equipment). Production coordination Anne Pollock. Development and international touring Emmanuelle Ossena. Communications Justine Cazin.
Production Ziferte Productions
With the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Coproduction Comédie de Genève ; T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers—centre dramatique national ; Points communs—Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy- Pontoise / Val d’Oise ; Théâtre national de Strasbourg ; Les Célestins—Théâtre de Lyon ; Festival d’Automne à Paris ; Festival d’Avignon ; Bonlieu scène natio-nale Annecy ; Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale ; Théâtre Garonne—scène européenne de Toulouse ; Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes- Pyrénées ; scène nationale d’Albi-Tarn ; TSQY—scène nationale
Residency T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers—centre dramatique national ; Points communs—Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise ; Comédie de Genève ; La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon ; Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale, Houdremont—centre culturel de la Courneuve
To create Bunker, Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre benefited from an artistic residency in two departments of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, as part of the culture-health programme run by the Festival d’Automne in Paris in partnership with the Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris
The company Ziferte Productions is supported by the DRAC Île-de-France
Performance funded by the Île-de-France region
Marion Siéfert is an associate artist at T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers—National Drama Centre and at Points communs—New National Stage of Cergy-Pontoise and the Val d’Oise.
Thanks to the AKEP (Montreuil Kyudo Association) and Kin No Shima (Toulon Kyudo Association). To Professor Carine Karachi and to all the patients who welcomed us. To Dr Bertrand Mathon, Christophe d’Alessandro, Michiko Iwata, Thomas Laurent, Dr Florence Laigle, Viviane du Boullay, David Maresca and his family, Julien Migozzi, Martine Bareyre, Julie Bareyre, Christine and Jean-Marie Siéfert
The T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers — Centre Dramatique National, Points communs — Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise and the Festival d’Automne in Paris are co-producers of this show and are presenting it as a corealisation.
The performance at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale is presented as part of the Transforme festival organised by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
After-show talk
Wednesday 14 October at Malakoff Scène nationale – Théâtre 71, performance followed by an after-show talk hosted by journalist Thomas Baumgartner.
The CEO of a major petrochemical group lives with his daughter, Ami, in his luxury bunker. He directs his empire, with neural implants inside his head, whilst Ami has, for several days now, fallen into complete silence. Bunker pinpoints what is at the source of poems and poetry, that of the encounter between spoken word and silence.
In this huis-clos of paranoid anticipation are four characters: Paul, the CEO, a fully-consenting guinea pig for these new inventions and worshipper of bio-technological advances; his daughter, Ami, who has decided to stop "pretending to talk”; his neurosurgeon and private coach, Thomas, a radical apostle of scientism; and his mother, of whom all we see, or rather hear, is her voice, and her advice, alternating between the reassuring and the imperious. Subjected to these different influences, Paul characterises this man of power who has been transformed into a puppet, a plaything for progress as opposed to born leader. He is driven by a thirst for vengeance towards his son Anderson, whom he seeks to disinherit. Faced with her father’s warped logorrhoea, Ami builds up another world for herself, made up of carefully-chosen gestures, as well as a meditative awareness of her own body and resistance. In parallel with the writing of the piece, Marion Siéfert and filmmaker Matthieu Bareyre undertook an artists residency within a neurosurgery ward, at the invitation of the Festival d’Automne and in partnership with Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris. At a time when the technological domination of our lives is reaching new heights, Bunker is an affirmation of the power of relationships and vulnerability.
In the same place
Metro 13 - Gabriel Péri
Bus 54, 140, 175, 177 - Place Voltaire ou bien + Lignes 235, 276, 340, 577 - Gabriel Péri
RER : Cité Universitaire (RER B)
Tramway : Cité Universitaire (T3)