LE RETOUR D’IDOMÉNÉE, 2020

A recumbent figure, on a glass coffin, under a shower of light, behind a translucent black veil already thrones in the middle of the stage before the spectators enter, invited  to the funeral of art, or rather to its resurrection. The choristers enter in black dressed   and masked, settling around the dead man who is in fact Idamante (the son whom Idomeneo kills in this tragedy), except that the character played by Samuel Boden gets   up again, as a metaphor for culture and of this production.

The performance thus becomes a cycle re-presenting the eternal renewal of tragedy but also of art which always recovers. The characters earn a death still a little eternally   on credit, a little love and happiness to live again in addition, like the public wins a show  that had been canceled.

The staging having to (be) adorned with the most urgent (because in a hurry in its elaboration), prefers to illustrate it in the first degree in a neutral universe. After this resuscitated initial relevant idea, she connects scenic interactions and videos all in black and white which zoom into the bottom of a pupil during introspections, stops on grimaces when a character suffers, shows two naked bodies entwined when a couple  loves each other, the altar becomes a banquet for the wedding by having Ilione enter in a white dress with a hippie-style flower crown, etc.) with the added bonus of the traditional – in Lille – light dazzling the public at the end of the work.

Stage director: Alex Ollé

Video: Emmanuel Carlier

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