Un jeune se tue

 

Christophe Honoré’s play begins on a country road on a summer night. A car has overturned, just after an accident, amid silence and smoke. Bringing this image to life are the bodies of provincial youth struggling against boredom, ghosts and predetermined destinies. Bodies at war, but a private war. Un jeune se tue refers to the forms of representation of our time, i.e. cinema, but also fragmented narratives in literature, contemporary theatre, performance and dance, all while preserving the fable, the story. Christophe Honoré wrote Un jeune se tue for Robert Cantarella so that third-year students at the École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne could tackle the creation of a text.

 

 

Premiere on July 10th, 2012, at the Festival d’Avignon.

 

 

Text Christophe Honoré

Directed by Robert Cantarella

Set design Jacques Mollon

Lighting Katell Djian

Music Alexandre Meyer

 

Costumes Ouria Dahmani Khouhli

 

Artistic collaboration Julien Fišera

 

Sound engineer Fabrice Drevet

 

Stage manager Thomas Chazalon

Stage technician François Raïa

Props manager Hubert Blanchet

Production Karine Branchelot and Sabrina Fuchs

Head of studies Fabien Spillmann

 

 

With Katell Daunis, Clémentine Desgranges, Kathleen Dol, Arthur Fourcade, François Gorrissen, Maud Lefebvre, Lucile Paysant, René Turquois, Béatrice Venet

 

 

Production L’École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne

With the support of La Comédie de Saint-Étienne National Drama Centre, the DRAC Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Rhône-Alpes Region, the City of Saint-Étienne and R&C

 

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage