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18 rue Jules Vallès 69100 Villeurbanne Tél + 33 (0)4 78 24 13 27 Fax +33 (0)4 37 24 19 89 [email protected] www.premieracte.net MACONDO / ERENDIRA THE DIPTYCH Adapted from "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother " by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ www.erendira.fr CONTACT PREMIER ACTE [email protected] Artistic Director : Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian / [email protected] Administrator : Claude Tabouret / [email protected] Tour Manager : Caroline Pellerin / [email protected] Technical Manager : Stephen Vernay / [email protected] Press & Marketing : Marie Gauthier / [email protected] Phone : 00 33 (0)4 78 24 13 27 Adress : 18, rue Jules Vallès 69100 VILLEURBANNE FRANCE www.premieracte.net PREMIER ACTE A THEATRE COMPANY AND A SCHOOL The ‘Premier Acte’ Theatre Company was founded out of the need to tell the stories of our time and to show that the theatre could be a place to learn vigilance and clear-sightedness. Since ‘Avril’, in 1985, a play about genocide observed from France, Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian has consistently shown his leaning towards contemporary writing and plays. The need to tell of tragedies both past and present has led him to direct works such as ‘La Chunga’ by Mario Vargas-Llosa (1993), or ‘Claude Gueux’ by Victor Hugo (2007). In working on plays such as Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Glass Menagerie’ (1989) or Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ (2002), he shows his interest in individuals and their relationship with society as a whole. More recently the ‘Macondo/ Erendira’ diptych (play in two parts) based on the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004/2005) and ‘Don Quixote - Episode 2’ based on the work of Cervantes (2008) focus on the exploration of visual forms and beauty. Most of his theatrical adaptations are inspired by human content of novels, and the universality of poetry. So far, twenty-one of his twentyseven productions come from original or unpublished works. In addition the Company has been running a school since the year 2000. The ‘Ecole Premier Acte’ offers amateur workshops, an Acting Apprenticeship Course and an Acting Studio for professional actors. And its aim is to open its doors to ever more people… ‘Premier Acte’ abroad > Since it was founded, ‘Premier Acte’ and its director have made working abroad a key focus. So far fifteen countries on four continents have welcomed the Company and its School. These are primarily underprivieged or war-torn countries: Iran, Israel, Armenia, Japan and Vietnam in Asia; Morocco in Africa; Quebec in the Americas; Ukraine, Poland, Lebanon and Greece in Europe. Interacting with different cultures and customs and seeing at first-hand the suffering of the countries that they’ve visited has undoubtedly helped the Company to understand the power of theatre as tool for mutual comprehension and for living and working together in the world… www.erendira.fr SARKIS TCHEUMLEKDJIAN DIRECTOR AND TEACHER After studying at the ‘Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique’ in Lyon from 1982 to 1984, Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian continued his training in Israel, Japan, Ukraine and France. In 1985, he founded the ‘Premier Acte’ Company with Michel Touitou, Catherine Vial and Patrick Auzet-Magri, and became its playwright and director. In 2000, he launched the ‘Ecole Premier Acte’, devoted to theatrical research and education. He has directed more than thirty-five shows since 1985, all of which he either wrote or adapted for the stage, consistently favouring contemporary writing and plays, original or unpublished texts. Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian His most recent productions have been ‘Don Quixote - Episode 2’ based on the Cervantes novel in 2008; ‘Claude Gueux’ based on Victor Hugo’s story in 2007; ‘Macondo’ and ‘Erendira’, a diptych based on the world of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which has been touring in France and abroad since 2005. He has also directed Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ in Vietnamese at the Hanoi Opera, with students from the ‘Ecole Nationale de Théâtre et de Cinéma du Vietnam’, and this production has been on tour since 2004. Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian is driven by the desire and the need to communicate and keeps moving forward with a committed team, running artistic and educational projects around the world, in particular in Ukraine, Vietnam, Israel, Morocco, Armenia, Poland and the United Arab Emirates. He has been a fellow of the ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre’ (ENSATT) Theatre School since 2005 and President of Zartong, a traditional Armenian Music School since October 2007. www.erendira.fr THE DIPTYCH MACONDO/ ERENDIRA The Garcia-Marquez diptych (play in two parts) turns the spotlight on seven of the short stories that stand out in the collection ‘The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother’. FIRST HALF – MACONDO (55 mins) Sat in a boat beached in the desert, two story-tellers tell fantastical tales of the village of Macando. The story of ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‘, an asthmatic angel who loses his feathers and is thrown down to earth by a storm. The story of Estéban, ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World‘ stranded on a beach… Or ‘The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother’ which stuns the whole village…Erendira is seen through a net, slowly waking up, trembling all over. And she recalls her sad story… SECOND HALF – ERENDIRA (1h 05m) In a misty atmosphere evocative of the sad events to come, the storytellers take up the tale. Orphaned by her father and mother, the young and beautiful Erendira is raised by her grandmother, a mythical and heartless character, for whom she works. One evening, exhausted from her hard labour, Erendira falls asleep without putting out the candle. In the morning, the beautiful house is nothing but ashes. To repay her grandmother, Erendira obeys her and becomes a prostitute... . www.erendira.fr S TA G I N G T H E D I P T Y C H The diptych The two halves of the diptych are held together by the two story-tellers. They move from one story to the other, confuse the past and the present, dream and reality, the dead and the living. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s stories lend themselves wonderfully to this approach. They are one and the same story, retold over and again but always different, partially developed and explored. It has been very easy to dovetail the two halves of the diptych, thanks to Marquez’s well-known ‘magical realism’. Imagery I allowed myself to use and to adapt, as in a dream, a number of images that come from the seven fables in the collection - the image of a bandstand spinning on the bottom of the sea, the old man with two large wings, or those fish floating in the air like confetti... Audio imagery Just as much as the text, music is a key factor in my work, especially when I’m adapting a novel for the stage. I believe that music is vital nourishment for the audience. It is like that magnificent backdrop which does not necessarily tell you all the details. As for recorded sound effects and those on stage in the show, they are orchestrated such that the audience’s imagination is constantly impacted on two powerful levels, through sight and through sound. The stage I chose an empty stage because it is a wonderful place for dreams and the imagination to come alive, a blank page on which the poetry can work its magic… One dream to another With ‘Macondo’ and ‘Erendira’, I want to offer the audience a symphony of sound and visual effects, an escape into a world that is not limited by time or space, a world where the smallest details of the actors’ words, voices, movements and poses are carefully chosen for their beauty. www.erendira.fr PRESS REVIEWS AND CUTTINGS MACONDO Spellbinding! A total success – one of the most beautiful dream machines that theatre has offered. The whole thing conspires to turn us into delighted children who beg for more, again and again... Trina Mounier – Lyon Poche A show of exceptional beauty, poetry and bittersweet laughter. You will be smiling from the opening imagery until the very end... Michèle Hautois - Le Progrès This is the kind of theatre we want to see again and again, where the fantastic and the extraordinary reveal our own wanderlust, where ridiculous and magnificent heroes become our secret mirrors… Pascale Clavel - 491 Extraordinary stories. All literary and theatrical artistry is brought together in this show that is both funny and pure. Not to be missed ! Vinvent Raymond - Tribune de Lyon ERENDIRA The most beautiful show I have seen this season. And one of the most magical, too, taking the audience into a dream world. Nelly Gabriel - Lyon Figaro Total and full immersion in happiness from the very beginning. This is the kind of theatre we want to see again and again. Pascale Clavel - 491 Poetic visions and musical journeys collide to draw you into a magical dream world bursting with surprises and perils. Marc Weinachter - Tageblatt www.erendira.fr OTHER SHOWS ON TOUR CLAUDE GUEUX “On 7th November 1831, Claude Gueux, a hardened thief, imprisoned in Clairvaux central prison, kills Monsieur Delacelle, the workshop manager, in front of the other prisoners, who cannot contain their delight. His trial begins in March 1832 before the Court of Assizes in Troyes. He is condemned to death and executed in June of the same year.” Victor Hugo We see Claude Gueux’s cell in centre stage. The condemned man’s poetic inner state of mind is spelt out by the musicians’ fingers, while the humiliation and torture that he must undergo are expressed on the electric guitar. Through a minimal stage set, Claude Gueux reveals the mechanisms of social brutality whose only response to destitution is repression. DON QUIXOTE - EPISODE 2 Having talked to Cervantes, the author of “episode 1 of his adventures”, and reassured himself of Sancho’s loyalty, Don Quixote agrees to get back in the saddle again, on condition of the incomparable Dulcinée’s blessing “whom he has not had the honour of meeting in the first part of his adventures”. Under the omniscient gaze of Cervantes the two paper heroes set off on their adventures… Don Quixote and Sancho are sculpted and choreographed as two ‘marionettes‘ from Cervantes’ dreams, who here plays the role of the puppeteer. In his hands, the wind can be a fan, and the sun an elegant replacement for a huge spotlight. From this starting point, the audience watches the fable played out on stage before them… www.erendira.fr PREMIER A C T E ’ S H O W S 1985 - "AVRIL" by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1986 - "LEGITIME DEMENCE" by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1987 - "AU BAR DES ÂMES PERDUES" by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1988 - "LES CIGALES" by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1989 - "LA MENAGERIE DE VERRE" by Tennessee Williams 1990 ... 2007 - "LA VOIX HUMAINE" by Jean Cocteau "Avril" 1985 1991 - "BENT" by Martin Sherman 1991 - 1992 - "VARTABED" by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1993 - "HAROLD ET GUILLAUME" text in french and english by Jan Farquasson 1993 - "LA CHUNGA" by Mario Vargas-Llosa 1993 - 1994 - "LA DEMANDE EN MARIAGE" by Anton Tchekhov, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian "La Voix Humaine" 1990 1993 - "LE MOINE APOSTAT" by Antony Shafton, adapted by Eric Goria and Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1994 - "LA MOUETTE" by Anton Tchekhov 1995 - Trilogie SAINT GENET "DELINQUANT !" , "CONDAMNE !" , "POETE !" by Jean Genet, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1995 - "LES BONNES" by Jean Genet, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1997 - "ET UNE NUIT" by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 1998 - "EGO MONSTRE" and "LE VOYAGEUR DE MINUIT" by Sayd Bahodine "La Chunga" 1993 Majrouh, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian and Catherine Vial 1998 - "LE RIRE DES AMANTS" by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 2000 - "CALIGULA" by Albert Camus 2001 - "DON JUAN(S)" adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian, by Milosz, Molière, Da Ponte-Mozart, Pouchkine, Lenau "Les Trois Soeurs" 2002 2002 - "LES TROIS SOEURS" by Anton Tchekhov 2003 - "SHAFTON" inspired from the novel "Le Moine Apostat" by Anthony Shafton, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 2004 / 2005 - "MACONDO" and "ERENDIRA" from "L'incroyable et triste histoire de la candide Erendira et de sa grand-mère diabolique" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 2006 - "LES MEFAITS DU MARIAGE" by Anton Tchekhov, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian 2007 - "CLAUDE GUEUX" by Victor Hugo, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian "Don Quichotte - Tome 2" 2008 2008 - "DON QUICHOTTE - TOME 2" by Cervantès, adapted by Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian