Les Palmiers Sauvages

Les Palmiers sauvages is a concertino for two beings, an unbridled music score in which everything becomes sound, in which everything makes sense. An intense, passionate, torrid and terrible love story. (…) Séverine Chavrier orchestrates this theatre score with mastery. (…) She is in concert with the actors whose physical and mental commitment is flawless.
Théâtre(s) Magazine, printemps 2015

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

Charlotte leaves her husband and children because of her passion for Harry; Harry cuts short his internship in order to run away with Charlotte. They have no possessions. Nothing, apart from their all-consuming passion for each other. Their dizzying story brings them to a bungalow next to the sea, at the mercy of the wind rustling in the wild palm-trees… “Can our love of love make us end up forgetting to love the other person? If we live our passion like a work of art, does it not become a very solitary undertaking, destined to failure?”.

In the light of these questions, Séverine Chavrier brings to the stage this heart-rending novel in which Faulkner builds up an “introspective and retrospective account” of the relationships between work and life, desire and creative ambition. With its first production in Vidy-Lausanne, the play was then presented at the end of 2014 at the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, and was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.

based on the novel If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by William Faulkner

Direction : Séverine Chavrier

Dramaturgy and set design : Benjamin Hautin

Sound : Philippe Perrin

Lighting : David Perez

Video : Jérôme Vernez

Set construction : Ateliers Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

With : Séverine Chavrier, Laurent Papot, Déborah Rouach

Production : Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

Coproduction : Nouveau théâtre de Montreuil

With the help of : Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (F), SPEDIDAM, CDN de Besançon Franche-Comté, Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture

Credits: Samuel Rubio