Compagnie LIV - Ouvrage

Alma Palacios trained at the P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios), a school in Brussels, managed by Anne Teresa de Keermaeker.
Pauline Moulène, Ruth Vega Fernandez, and Georgia Scalliet graduated from the ENSATT (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Technique du
Théâtre) in Lyon (France), and have each been part of a permanent drama company (Comédie de Valence, TNP, Comédie Française).

Alma, Ruth and Georgia met while working with the Tg STAN collective company. They have each created a play with Frank Vercruyssen (Fräulein
Else, Scenes From a Marriage, After the Rehearsal). Having experienced this creative process, they felt like pursuing their work together on Bergman. With Pauline, they founded the LIV company.

EMBROIDERY

We are concentrating on the relationships between women within a family unit. In both texts, the women are constricted by social conventions and puritan morals, and they have ongoing passionate, perverse and destructive relations. In Madame de Sade, the plot is tightened to concentrate on Madame de Montreuil and her two daughters: the Marchioness of Sade and Anne Prospère. In Cries and Whispers, we are focusing on the links that bind the three sisters: Agnes, Karin, and Maria.
Three men talking about women
Mishima wrote a play following the French classical model of drama, and he provides us with a strong narrative framework. On the contrary, the notes on Cries and Whispers gather the author’s fragmented thoughts. For us, these notes could be a possible counterpoint, the wrong side, or the shadow, of Madame de Sade. The dreams and the nightmares of Mishima’s characters seem to be translated in Bergman’s suggestive writing. Two forms – two different places for secret and intimate exchanges.Bergman, Mishima, and Sade are three male authors. Three acknowledged figures. All three write about women. As actresses, we find it interesting to take a stand in relation to these writings, these works, these thoughts, establishing a direct dialogue with them. We want to seize, question, and thwart the image of woman described by these three men. In order to achieve that, we will move freely between embodiment and disembodiment, between lines and stage directions, between narrative monologues and scenes.

Premiere at the Theatre de la Bastille – Paris on November 3rd, 2017
Estimated duration : 1h

From Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima andCris et Chuchotements by Ingmar Bergman
By and with Pauline Moulène, Alma Palacios, Ruth Vega Fernandez
Artistic collaboration Georgia Scalliet

Production Compagnie LIV / Les Indépendances
Co-productions et supports Théâtre de la Bastille-Paris, Espaço Alkantara-Lisbonne, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, CDR de Vire-Le Préau, Monty Kultuurfaktorij-Anvers

Manager : Colin Pitrat +33(0)1.43.38.23.71 – production@lesindependances.com