This composition, served by Jon Fosse’s timeless, enlightening writing, is titled Étincelles (Sparks) as a reference to the “tiny sparks of eternity” which tend to arise inside theatres or within everyday life.
In addition to the dialogue between a man and a woman, gazing at the top of a mountain almost as tall as the sky, the piece includes plays set in a more urban environment in which time is the main character. The plot is fragmented and deployed through pivotal highlights taken from different moments of the timeline; a woman hungry for freedom wishes to reconnect with the man she left; a man moves from his home, fuelled by his passion for a young woman but unsure of whether she will come to him; a man is on a quest to find all things invisible and secret. The audience’s job is to investigate these fragments of life, which may be recounted either at the time of their occurrence, years later, or in the stretched-out time of a disrupted existence. Gabriel Dufay draws a parallel between the vibrancy of these plays and that of Japanese haikus; thanks to a pared-down set, he magnifies the various sides of pieces in which anonymous, often helpless individuals, are given a voice, and look for words to say what can’t be said. Following Claude Régy, who introduced Jon Fosse’s plays in France, and Patrice Chéreau, who first directed them, Gabriel Dufay deploys a pictorial, tangible manifestation of the musical and poetic energy of Fosse’s writing, set to reveal all things secret. He quotes Jon Fosse, who once told him: “I am always amazed when I watch worlds being created.”

NEW PRODUCTION

L'Arche éditeur is the theatrical agent for the represented texts.

L’œuvre théâtrale de Jon Fosse est publiée et représentée par L’ARCHE – éditeur & agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com

*Ces textes sont publiés dans le livre d’entretiens par Gabriel Dufay Jon Fosse, Écrire, c’est écouter (L’Arche, 2023)

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C’EST LUNDI AU VIEUX-CO
Autour de Jon Fosse
6 OCT À 19H

Mercredi 15 octobre à 20h
Un bord plateau se tiendra à l’issue de la représentation d'Étincelles au Studio-Théâtre, en présence du metteur en scène Gabriel Dufay et d'une partie de la distribution du spectacle.
Cette rencontre sera animée par Laurent Muhleisen, conseiller littéraire de la Comédie-Française.
En libre accès, avec ou sans billet.

Direction: Gabriel Dufay
Translation: Camilla Bouchet, Gabriel Dufay, Marianne Ségol et Terje Sinding
Scenography: Margaux Nessi
Costumes: Aude Désigaux
Lighting: Sébian Falk-Lemarchand
Sound: Samuel Robineau