Christian Gonon adapts Karelle Ménine’s work, an anthology of interviews, texts and public speeches by this theatre enthusiast who died in 2017 and had worked to promote culture as a crucible of social cohesion: “Speaking the words of Jack Ralite is an act of resistance to all renunciations. Cultural, political or poetic. A full and generous resistance that draws its strength from a sensitive understanding of human beings. A resistance armed only with the spoken word and the clairvoyance of the poets. Their voices, which we no longer know how to hear. A companionship that raises us up to higher things. Vitez spoke of the actor following in the poet’s footsteps, like a walker in the sand. So that time does not erase them. I try to walk the paths of all Jack Ralite’s struggles, of all his acts of defiance, I slip into his thinking like into a suit of light At every crossroads I meet Aragon, Char, Hugo, Vilar, Saint-John Perse, Baudelaire... Whenever asked the recurrent question: ‘Why do you write?’, the poet’s answer will always be simply: ‘To live better’.”

Rencontre - signature avec Karelle Ménine et Christian Gonon à l’issue de la représentation :
MER 14 OCT

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Concepted and performed by: Christian Gonon
Lights: Philippe Lagrue
Original music: Jérôme Destours
Artistic collaboration: Alain Lenglet

And the voices of the Comédie-Française troupe and academy.