Farida is in the house!
Welcome to the new summary.
Everyone has noticed the attitude of the teacher... she was.... well upset... because this Monday most of us were late, and it was unacceptable dixit TT. By now, each Monday we should be on time... meaning 7.30pm. OOOOh yes!!!TT says!!!
WARMING UP : The circle, warming the voice and shaking the body to take off all the tension of the day.
Also, a new exercise inspired by a workshop on puppets TT took part in on the weekend: in circle, one froggy created a sound that came from his/her body out from his/her mouth, played with it and gave it to another froggy who played with it, swallowed it, created a new sound and so on.
PLAYING IN PAIRS: back to back, we did the same exercise as a couple of weeks ago and developped it : in pairs (usually our partner in the scene we are working on), back to back, we had to try and move together, one being the leader and the other the follower and swapping from time to time. There was some music on: Edward Sharpe of course! But a slow one : "Brother".
Then, face to face, we had to touch each other's face and body. And finally, still facing each other, we had to express different feelings according to TT's ideas: love, hatred, sadness, first touching each other, then only with the face and eyes.
After that, we were ready to work on our short dialogues!
WORKING ON THE TEXT :
We had to work in pairs with our own text and find :
- Our goal and how we can achieve thiat goal
- Who the leader is and who the follower is and at when they swap.
TT gave us 20 minutes to work on our text. Then we showed our performance to the class and to TT as well.
FIRST TEAM ==> Thibault and Farida
- PLOT : A cocktail party. A woman and a man had a conversation with "questions and answers" to see if they.
- TT's direction : Farida has to be sexier and tries to charm Thibault . Thibault has to be shier and focus on his questions and her answers. Then he becomes more entrepresing.This is when the woman begins to be afraid.
SECOND TEAM ==> Florence and William
- PLOT : A man (William) paid another one (Florence) to kill a man. They speak about how and when the killer killed this man.
- TT's direction : William has to be more confident and more directive with the killer when he is speaking. Florence is nconfortable about the situation. Then, Florence feels very confident and speaks loudly about how she killed the man with details. William is impressed and begins to feel less confident than at the beginning.
THE LAST TEAM ==> Gloria, Anaïs and Boubakar
- PLOT : A mother was completly hysterical because her daugther didn't get the audition and felt that it was not fair. She fights with her daughter who is fed up with the behaviour of her mother.
- TT 's directions: Boubakar doesn't need to speak, Gloria was great and Anaïs as well ( sorry I don't, really, remember he commentary of the teacher -:) ) NOT good Farida, not good at all! TT says hé!hé! Actually TT said that the two womend did not need to care about Boubakar, they had to fight around him and then in front of him. Boubakar, the father, couldn't care less.
To finish, we watched some extracts from "Thank God You're Here!", an Australian comedy show where comedians have to improvise in an environment they knew nothing about. Ex: One of the actors discovers she is the anchor of a sports show and has to present a new machine to work out.
The aim: do the same in 2011!
Everyone has worked very hard during this session... and TT added that we were ready, now, to learn by heart the text. Congratulations everyone!
And that's all folks ;-)
By the way, Bradra.... where were last monday ???????
Also, we welcomed a new Froggy: Jiani, who is great of course!
lundi 20 décembre 2010
dimanche 5 décembre 2010
Monday 29th november
An oldie writes our summary down! Thanks Fernie!
Tonight, at nine, everyone was studying the texts they have to play in January.
Gladys and Thibault had an affair with a curious trampoline …
Victoire had to deal with a shallow husband who wants to live in Los Angeles instead of New York, the city of culture, and welcomes a doctor to treat him.
Gloria, Anais and Boubakar had to play a family in great discussion.
William and Florence had to play a scene introducing a serial killer paid to kill and asking his duty.
And, last but not least, Badra was ALONE (what is this T.T ?) and, maybe, bored. (actually she was sleeping Fernie...TT says...)
Everyone had to find five sequences in their texts to show to the others for them to understand the story. Everytime TT switched off the light, the characters had to fix a sequence and stay motionless during the time the light was on.
Thibault and Gladys began. They fixed five sequences to show us a couple in great discussion around a trampoline. Thibault was jumping on the trampoline while Gladys was giving him a roasting. It was brilliant since … it’s not easy being fixed in the air (sorry Thibault for the joke)
Badra and Farida (who joined Badra later on) played a couple. The girl wants to leave but the husband tried by all the means to keep her. They fixed three sequences.
Very nice clash showed by Boubakar, Anais and Gloria. A family in great discussion about the daughter’s career as an actress. The mother doesn’t want her to become an actress, the father is not giving an arm with it and the daughter is trying to convince them. Five sequences.
William and Florence played a serial killer and his boss. The serial killer wanted to be paid. Very impressive.
And, at last, Victoire and Wiliam played a wife and a doctor coming to examine the woman’s shallow husband and finally chatting up with her.
After these exhausting exercises, TT reserved us the best for last.
We had to do an improvisation with five points : a kid, a television, a sentence (“It’s cold today”), a music (Home!), a feeling (joy).
Thibault, Gloria and Boubakar played a family bored in front of the television (actually Barbara’s bag) until Anais, the joyfull baby, came to play. Thibault and Boubakar began to play with her until Boubakar meets the table’s feet (aie, it hurts)
Victoire, William and Florence played a family bored on a cold Sunday afternoon. Gloria, their neighbor, came to play with Victoire. They wanted to play outside but it was too cold for that as the father, William, says. After a long discussion he finally decides to let them play outside.
At last, Farida, Gladys and Barbara played respectively a television, a mother and a child. The child was watching tv. She did the same gesticulations as the tv. Her mother came from outside where it was very cold. She began to play with her kid. Barbara, the kid, wanted to show her mother she could command the television … until the cartoon came out of the television to play with both of them.
And that's it for now!
Tonight, at nine, everyone was studying the texts they have to play in January.
Gladys and Thibault had an affair with a curious trampoline …
Victoire had to deal with a shallow husband who wants to live in Los Angeles instead of New York, the city of culture, and welcomes a doctor to treat him.
Gloria, Anais and Boubakar had to play a family in great discussion.
William and Florence had to play a scene introducing a serial killer paid to kill and asking his duty.
And, last but not least, Badra was ALONE (what is this T.T ?) and, maybe, bored. (actually she was sleeping Fernie...TT says...)
Everyone had to find five sequences in their texts to show to the others for them to understand the story. Everytime TT switched off the light, the characters had to fix a sequence and stay motionless during the time the light was on.
Thibault and Gladys began. They fixed five sequences to show us a couple in great discussion around a trampoline. Thibault was jumping on the trampoline while Gladys was giving him a roasting. It was brilliant since … it’s not easy being fixed in the air (sorry Thibault for the joke)
Badra and Farida (who joined Badra later on) played a couple. The girl wants to leave but the husband tried by all the means to keep her. They fixed three sequences.
Very nice clash showed by Boubakar, Anais and Gloria. A family in great discussion about the daughter’s career as an actress. The mother doesn’t want her to become an actress, the father is not giving an arm with it and the daughter is trying to convince them. Five sequences.
William and Florence played a serial killer and his boss. The serial killer wanted to be paid. Very impressive.
And, at last, Victoire and Wiliam played a wife and a doctor coming to examine the woman’s shallow husband and finally chatting up with her.
After these exhausting exercises, TT reserved us the best for last.
We had to do an improvisation with five points : a kid, a television, a sentence (“It’s cold today”), a music (Home!), a feeling (joy).
Thibault, Gloria and Boubakar played a family bored in front of the television (actually Barbara’s bag) until Anais, the joyfull baby, came to play. Thibault and Boubakar began to play with her until Boubakar meets the table’s feet (aie, it hurts)
Victoire, William and Florence played a family bored on a cold Sunday afternoon. Gloria, their neighbor, came to play with Victoire. They wanted to play outside but it was too cold for that as the father, William, says. After a long discussion he finally decides to let them play outside.
At last, Farida, Gladys and Barbara played respectively a television, a mother and a child. The child was watching tv. She did the same gesticulations as the tv. Her mother came from outside where it was very cold. She began to play with her kid. Barbara, the kid, wanted to show her mother she could command the television … until the cartoon came out of the television to play with both of them.
And that's it for now!
Summary of our 22th of november lesson - Santa Cecile
Florence's great summary with lots of picture that can't show on the blog, damned!
*We are all late (true!!! TT says)
Present : - Thibaud, Boubakar, Gloria, Victoire, Farida, Badrah, Anna and Florence + 2 guests (friends of Anna)
5 Parts
1) Warming up. We should remember all these gestures because it’s the last time Anna leads us.
- The charming voice of Anna in the breath circle (hi!hi! i like that, TT says)
- AH HE HI HO HU … work on our voice
- Exercises on body (very relaxing) – So much vocabulary that I give you a little notice….
Please use your imagination here to try and represent the body of a man and the face of a woman with arrows pointing to the different parts of the body and numbers associated to each arrow
The body
1 La tête The head
2 Le cou The neck
3 L'épaule The shoulder
4 Le bras The upper arm
5 Le coude The elbow
6 L'avant bras The forearm
7 Le poignet The wrist
8 La main The hand
9 Le doigt The finger
10 La hanche The hip
11 La cuisse The thigh
12 Le genou The knee
13 La jambe The leg
14 La cheville The ankle
15 Le pied The foot
16 Les orteils The toes
17 Le thorax The chest
18 L'abdomen The abdomen
- Contraction and up
- The Anna Hacka …
2) Games
- Dracula (everybody close their eyes. There is one Dracula. When he touches someone on the head, the fellow had to scream and he becomes a Dracula too. When a Dracula meets a Dracula they both laugh….) Very fun exercise.
- Modelling clay : 2 statues were modelled by two sculptors and vice versa
3) For Santa Cecile (patron saint of musicians): “HOME”, our SONG
Game on it. Creation of stories on the text
- Thibaud, Boubakar and Badra (Thibaud tried to stay on stage more than 15 minutes…)
- Farida and Victoire
- Gloria & Florence
4) Cigarettes outside with its social role (hé!hé! TT laughs)
5) Work on texts (find an aim, an obstacle and a way to succeed)
GOOD NEWS!
Our master piece will be “The Mouse Trap” from Agatha Christie. If you want to know the queen of polar, I bought the magazine below…. See you tomorrow (just two weeks late for my job but ahead from my friend William!!!!)
Please use your imagination once again to recreate the cover of "Lire Hors-Série/Agatha Christie, une femme fatale
*We are all late (true!!! TT says)
Present : - Thibaud, Boubakar, Gloria, Victoire, Farida, Badrah, Anna and Florence + 2 guests (friends of Anna)
5 Parts
1) Warming up. We should remember all these gestures because it’s the last time Anna leads us.
- The charming voice of Anna in the breath circle (hi!hi! i like that, TT says)
- AH HE HI HO HU … work on our voice
- Exercises on body (very relaxing) – So much vocabulary that I give you a little notice….
Please use your imagination here to try and represent the body of a man and the face of a woman with arrows pointing to the different parts of the body and numbers associated to each arrow
The body
1 La tête The head
2 Le cou The neck
3 L'épaule The shoulder
4 Le bras The upper arm
5 Le coude The elbow
6 L'avant bras The forearm
7 Le poignet The wrist
8 La main The hand
9 Le doigt The finger
10 La hanche The hip
11 La cuisse The thigh
12 Le genou The knee
13 La jambe The leg
14 La cheville The ankle
15 Le pied The foot
16 Les orteils The toes
17 Le thorax The chest
18 L'abdomen The abdomen
- Contraction and up
- The Anna Hacka …
2) Games
- Dracula (everybody close their eyes. There is one Dracula. When he touches someone on the head, the fellow had to scream and he becomes a Dracula too. When a Dracula meets a Dracula they both laugh….) Very fun exercise.
- Modelling clay : 2 statues were modelled by two sculptors and vice versa
3) For Santa Cecile (patron saint of musicians): “HOME”, our SONG
Game on it. Creation of stories on the text
- Thibaud, Boubakar and Badra (Thibaud tried to stay on stage more than 15 minutes…)
- Farida and Victoire
- Gloria & Florence
4) Cigarettes outside with its social role (hé!hé! TT laughs)
5) Work on texts (find an aim, an obstacle and a way to succeed)
GOOD NEWS!
Our master piece will be “The Mouse Trap” from Agatha Christie. If you want to know the queen of polar, I bought the magazine below…. See you tomorrow (just two weeks late for my job but ahead from my friend William!!!!)
Please use your imagination once again to recreate the cover of "Lire Hors-Série/Agatha Christie, une femme fatale
Monday 15th november
William is in the house!
1.The warming up
2. Laughing again , good thing we worked on it , for this laughing point inside of us (a wonderful place i'm sure! ) isn't that easy to reach for everyone , it takes a lot of "peeling" .
But this time it started more directly . We stood in line and, one after the other, we had to face the line of the rest of us and point each person out and start a growing laughter, quite a tensed position...I guess laughter was the key to it , at first on our own and then followed by all the group , the facong line. A good way of learning how to laugh for yourself and TO the others . Everyone can handle a good laugh !
3. Follow the leader : inspired by a leader, the group, still in a row , had to follow the leader through one imaginary walk around the room full of obstacles, one round each and several obstacles at each turn .
4. The sculpture and its sculptor: a sculptor had to sculpt a living sculpture and vice versa
5. The Arrival, a graphic novel by Shaun Tan, exercise 2
After our physical exercise, we setlled down and, following TT's saying, agreed to turn our good old acting place into another proportioned world exept for one person who waited outside while we found out about our new world, new language and new jobs. This was inspired by the main character from The Arrival, who discovers a totally new world with new codes and a different language. When the person who was waiting outisde came back in he/she found out a whole new world , new looks on peoples' faces performing unusual activities , and new ways of reacting with a new freshly concepted language.
The aim of the person arriving in this new dimension was to get around, observe and eventually try to communicate his/her goal , which was either to find a job , or a hotel for the night .
Communication, adaption and understanding was the aim, and because of the lack of words, everything was based on body language, which needed a lot of listening (of unknown words) and interaction , understanding the others' presence.
5. Working on text
After having played with no solid written text, here we were armed with a few lines, there has been long silences ,trying to make those lines go somewhere.
We worked on the aim of each character.
Lots of confrontations and embrassment, shattering breaking ups and magical hooking ups.
And that's it for now!
Ps: No overdose of that sweet Home music , i guess we could have handled even more! :) (I heard you! TT says...)
1.The warming up
2. Laughing again , good thing we worked on it , for this laughing point inside of us (a wonderful place i'm sure! ) isn't that easy to reach for everyone , it takes a lot of "peeling" .
But this time it started more directly . We stood in line and, one after the other, we had to face the line of the rest of us and point each person out and start a growing laughter, quite a tensed position...I guess laughter was the key to it , at first on our own and then followed by all the group , the facong line. A good way of learning how to laugh for yourself and TO the others . Everyone can handle a good laugh !
3. Follow the leader : inspired by a leader, the group, still in a row , had to follow the leader through one imaginary walk around the room full of obstacles, one round each and several obstacles at each turn .
4. The sculpture and its sculptor: a sculptor had to sculpt a living sculpture and vice versa
5. The Arrival, a graphic novel by Shaun Tan, exercise 2
After our physical exercise, we setlled down and, following TT's saying, agreed to turn our good old acting place into another proportioned world exept for one person who waited outside while we found out about our new world, new language and new jobs. This was inspired by the main character from The Arrival, who discovers a totally new world with new codes and a different language. When the person who was waiting outisde came back in he/she found out a whole new world , new looks on peoples' faces performing unusual activities , and new ways of reacting with a new freshly concepted language.
The aim of the person arriving in this new dimension was to get around, observe and eventually try to communicate his/her goal , which was either to find a job , or a hotel for the night .
Communication, adaption and understanding was the aim, and because of the lack of words, everything was based on body language, which needed a lot of listening (of unknown words) and interaction , understanding the others' presence.
5. Working on text
After having played with no solid written text, here we were armed with a few lines, there has been long silences ,trying to make those lines go somewhere.
We worked on the aim of each character.
Lots of confrontations and embrassment, shattering breaking ups and magical hooking ups.
And that's it for now!
Ps: No overdose of that sweet Home music , i guess we could have handled even more! :) (I heard you! TT says...)
samedi 4 décembre 2010
Bernanos au MC93 mardi soir
Salut les froggies
Bernanos est à mon sens un des plus grands écrivains de langue française, et les occasions sont rares d'entendre ses textes. Le théâtre en partance joue jusqu'à mercredi soir au MC93 de Bobigny une pièce inspirée de ses écrits de combats (que je vous invite par ailleurs à lire). J'y vais mardi, ceux qui veulent venir avec moi sont les bienvenus.
Présentation Compagnons inconnus
envoyé par theatreenpartance. - Futurs lauréats du Sundance.
critique du figaro: Parmi les spectacles forts que l'on peut voir ces jours-ci, il y a cette adaptation remarquable des Écrits de combat de Georges Bernanos. Il s'agit de la reprise d'un spectacle présenté il y a ...deux ans par Théâtre en partance, compagnie implantée en Normandie et qui accomplit un vrai travail de création à Saint-Lô et dans la région. Formés à l'école du Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Valérie Aubert et Samir Siad montent aussi bien les pièces du répertoire que des textes contemporains. Ici, sur un fond d'images, un chœur et un coryphée portent la parole toujours vive de Bernanos. La manière dont il analyse les événements de son temps est si forte que sa pensée semble destinée à nous faire réfléchir aujourd'hui, ici et maintenant
La manche libre:
Le Théâtre en Partance remet Bernanos au goût du jour
“Compagnons inconnus”, la dernière création du Théâtre en Partance, a séduit le public de Bobigny. On la retrouve en Normandie.
Après un magnifique succès au théâtre MC93 de Bobigny, Compagnons inconnus, la dernière création du Théâtre en Partance autour des écrits de Georges Bernanos, vient chercher le triomphe à Saint-Lô mardi 21 avril.Défi littéraire et artistique, le travail achevé par la compagnie de Samir Siad et Valérie Aubert a choisi de se servir du verbe du grand écrivain chrétien pour mettre en lumière l'histoire récente de l'Europe. Et surtout nous aider à en tirer de nouvelles leçons.
Bernanos s’adresse à nous
Aux mots extraits des Grands cimetières sous la lune, de La France contre les robots, des Enfants humiliés ou de La liberté pour quoi faire? s’ajoute une mise en scène ciblée destinée à créer l’émotion. Ballons, terre, lumière, costumes simples, extraits musicaux et vidéo soutiennent une interprétation vécue “au corps” par Samir Siad, Cédric Altadill, Vincent Reverte et Fabrice Hervé, réunis en “chœur” de citoyens combattants de 14-18 se transformant peu à peu en civils, en technocrates, en traders d’aujourd’hui...
Plus que de susciter des battements cardiaques, les quatre comédiens de Bricqueville-sur-Mer se sont donnés pour mission sur scène de faire entendre au public le message, “parfaitement actuel”, d’un écrivain “bien au-dessus des mouvements de pensées dans lesquelles on a voulu le ranger”.
Un public étonné et surpris
“Et non sans drôlerie”, rappelle le codirecteur de la troupe des Embruns, Samir Siad, qui souligne à quel point l’écrivain, malgré une grande gravité, “avait le sens du cocasse”.
Georges Bernanos a traversé le XXe siècle et ses deux guerres mondiales. ”Inspiré durablement par l’expérience des tranchées”, il l’a marqué de sa plume. Assez critique sans être violente, assez étonnée sans être naïve et assez profonde sans être mystique pour être relue aujourd’hui à l’heure de la surconsommation et de “l’abandon de nos libertés au profit de l’Etat, des systèmes économiques et des polices”.
C’est ce challenge sans crânerie, cette leçon d’histoire sans dogmatisme qui a sans doute séduit le théâtre de Bobigny, amateur de textes puissants et de grand art.
“Comme l’arbre peut cacher la forêt, la réputation de Bernanos dissimule une oeuvre plus complexe et plus riche qu’on ne le pense souvent”, a introduit le théâtre de la région parisienne, avant de rappeler comment Georges Bernanos le catholique s’est oposé au “franquisme meurtrier”, à la “lâcheté des accords de Munich en 1938 et à “l’effondrement des démocraties”.
La pièce écrite à partir de ce que les éditeurs ont appelé les “écrits de combats” de Bernanos - ses “articles, conférences et écrits politiques de 1936 et 1948”, explique Samir Siad - a été coproduite avec le MC93 suite à la “venue de Patrick Sommier dans la Manche. Je lui ai avoué ma passion pour Bernanos, il a dit “c’est ça qu’il faut monter”, se souvient le directeur du Théâtre en Partance, qui raconte un public “étonné, surpris, en communion de pensée avec Bernanos, un auteur étonnament libre de toute idéologie et qui disait il y a 60 ans qu’il n’écrivait pas pour ses contemporains mais pour ceux d’après...” Rendre justice au courage intellectuel de cet auteur opposé à tous les totalitarismes, avoir réussi à théâtraliser ses textes, donner à un public non spécialiste l’envie de s’y replonger. Voilà ce que le public normand découvrira en allant applaudir le théatre en Partance.
Isabelle Petiot
Combattant des tranchées...
Georges Bernanos est né à Paris en 1888. Homme de foi et de passion, il débute dans le journalisme en collaborant à L’Action Française. Après sa rupture avec Charles Maurras en 1932, il se rapproche de Mauriac et Malraux. À son retour des tranchées en 1918, il devient inspecteur d’assurances.
... opposant au franquisme...
Le premier roman de Bernanos, Sous le soleil de Satan, sort en 1926. Le Journal d’un curé de campagne est écrit en 1934 aux Baléares. Pendant la guerre civile espagnole, l’écrivain prend le parti des victimes avec Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune (1938).
... puis résistant en exil
Face à la montée des fascismes, Bernanos quitte ensuite l’Europe pour se réfugier au Paraguay, puis au Brésil, où il devient l’un des plus grands animateurs spirituels de la Résistance. En juillet 1945, sollicité par le général De Gaulle, iil rentre en France. Il meurt trois ans plus tard.
Une prophétie de Bernanos?
“Le libéralisme asservissait l’homme à l’économie, pour que l’Etat pût s’emparer de tout ensemble, le moment venu, de l’homme et de l’économie, le capitalisme des trusts frayant la voie au trust des trusts, au trust suprême, au trust unique : à l’Etat technique divinisé” Georges Bernanos.
Bernanos est à mon sens un des plus grands écrivains de langue française, et les occasions sont rares d'entendre ses textes. Le théâtre en partance joue jusqu'à mercredi soir au MC93 de Bobigny une pièce inspirée de ses écrits de combats (que je vous invite par ailleurs à lire). J'y vais mardi, ceux qui veulent venir avec moi sont les bienvenus.
Présentation Compagnons inconnus
envoyé par theatreenpartance. - Futurs lauréats du Sundance.
critique du figaro: Parmi les spectacles forts que l'on peut voir ces jours-ci, il y a cette adaptation remarquable des Écrits de combat de Georges Bernanos. Il s'agit de la reprise d'un spectacle présenté il y a ...deux ans par Théâtre en partance, compagnie implantée en Normandie et qui accomplit un vrai travail de création à Saint-Lô et dans la région. Formés à l'école du Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Valérie Aubert et Samir Siad montent aussi bien les pièces du répertoire que des textes contemporains. Ici, sur un fond d'images, un chœur et un coryphée portent la parole toujours vive de Bernanos. La manière dont il analyse les événements de son temps est si forte que sa pensée semble destinée à nous faire réfléchir aujourd'hui, ici et maintenant
La manche libre:
Le Théâtre en Partance remet Bernanos au goût du jour
“Compagnons inconnus”, la dernière création du Théâtre en Partance, a séduit le public de Bobigny. On la retrouve en Normandie.
Après un magnifique succès au théâtre MC93 de Bobigny, Compagnons inconnus, la dernière création du Théâtre en Partance autour des écrits de Georges Bernanos, vient chercher le triomphe à Saint-Lô mardi 21 avril.Défi littéraire et artistique, le travail achevé par la compagnie de Samir Siad et Valérie Aubert a choisi de se servir du verbe du grand écrivain chrétien pour mettre en lumière l'histoire récente de l'Europe. Et surtout nous aider à en tirer de nouvelles leçons.
Bernanos s’adresse à nous
Aux mots extraits des Grands cimetières sous la lune, de La France contre les robots, des Enfants humiliés ou de La liberté pour quoi faire? s’ajoute une mise en scène ciblée destinée à créer l’émotion. Ballons, terre, lumière, costumes simples, extraits musicaux et vidéo soutiennent une interprétation vécue “au corps” par Samir Siad, Cédric Altadill, Vincent Reverte et Fabrice Hervé, réunis en “chœur” de citoyens combattants de 14-18 se transformant peu à peu en civils, en technocrates, en traders d’aujourd’hui...
Plus que de susciter des battements cardiaques, les quatre comédiens de Bricqueville-sur-Mer se sont donnés pour mission sur scène de faire entendre au public le message, “parfaitement actuel”, d’un écrivain “bien au-dessus des mouvements de pensées dans lesquelles on a voulu le ranger”.
Un public étonné et surpris
“Et non sans drôlerie”, rappelle le codirecteur de la troupe des Embruns, Samir Siad, qui souligne à quel point l’écrivain, malgré une grande gravité, “avait le sens du cocasse”.
Georges Bernanos a traversé le XXe siècle et ses deux guerres mondiales. ”Inspiré durablement par l’expérience des tranchées”, il l’a marqué de sa plume. Assez critique sans être violente, assez étonnée sans être naïve et assez profonde sans être mystique pour être relue aujourd’hui à l’heure de la surconsommation et de “l’abandon de nos libertés au profit de l’Etat, des systèmes économiques et des polices”.
C’est ce challenge sans crânerie, cette leçon d’histoire sans dogmatisme qui a sans doute séduit le théâtre de Bobigny, amateur de textes puissants et de grand art.
“Comme l’arbre peut cacher la forêt, la réputation de Bernanos dissimule une oeuvre plus complexe et plus riche qu’on ne le pense souvent”, a introduit le théâtre de la région parisienne, avant de rappeler comment Georges Bernanos le catholique s’est oposé au “franquisme meurtrier”, à la “lâcheté des accords de Munich en 1938 et à “l’effondrement des démocraties”.
La pièce écrite à partir de ce que les éditeurs ont appelé les “écrits de combats” de Bernanos - ses “articles, conférences et écrits politiques de 1936 et 1948”, explique Samir Siad - a été coproduite avec le MC93 suite à la “venue de Patrick Sommier dans la Manche. Je lui ai avoué ma passion pour Bernanos, il a dit “c’est ça qu’il faut monter”, se souvient le directeur du Théâtre en Partance, qui raconte un public “étonné, surpris, en communion de pensée avec Bernanos, un auteur étonnament libre de toute idéologie et qui disait il y a 60 ans qu’il n’écrivait pas pour ses contemporains mais pour ceux d’après...” Rendre justice au courage intellectuel de cet auteur opposé à tous les totalitarismes, avoir réussi à théâtraliser ses textes, donner à un public non spécialiste l’envie de s’y replonger. Voilà ce que le public normand découvrira en allant applaudir le théatre en Partance.
Isabelle Petiot
Combattant des tranchées...
Georges Bernanos est né à Paris en 1888. Homme de foi et de passion, il débute dans le journalisme en collaborant à L’Action Française. Après sa rupture avec Charles Maurras en 1932, il se rapproche de Mauriac et Malraux. À son retour des tranchées en 1918, il devient inspecteur d’assurances.
... opposant au franquisme...
Le premier roman de Bernanos, Sous le soleil de Satan, sort en 1926. Le Journal d’un curé de campagne est écrit en 1934 aux Baléares. Pendant la guerre civile espagnole, l’écrivain prend le parti des victimes avec Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune (1938).
... puis résistant en exil
Face à la montée des fascismes, Bernanos quitte ensuite l’Europe pour se réfugier au Paraguay, puis au Brésil, où il devient l’un des plus grands animateurs spirituels de la Résistance. En juillet 1945, sollicité par le général De Gaulle, iil rentre en France. Il meurt trois ans plus tard.
Une prophétie de Bernanos?
“Le libéralisme asservissait l’homme à l’économie, pour que l’Etat pût s’emparer de tout ensemble, le moment venu, de l’homme et de l’économie, le capitalisme des trusts frayant la voie au trust des trusts, au trust suprême, au trust unique : à l’Etat technique divinisé” Georges Bernanos.
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