reading 08 - 20 à 30 mn

Espace culture - during the varnishing of the installation byVéronique Duhaut
June 20, 18h

"Une soirée" & "Trois tableaux" by Virginia Woolf by Sylvie Boutley

© Véronique Duhaut "Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works." V. Woolf

Literature proving itself as theatre Letting words speak out Giving back through the theatre the intensity of a lost intimate moment ('the open intimity of the person who is writing and the person who is reading,' as Maurice Blanchot said). In order to share this experience by carrying out a transformation, one has to first of all listen to what the words have to say, in the playful space of the theatre, where these words become bodies, lives and thoughts. To be a part of the theatre one must leave literature through literature, and imagine the original work, the completed work, as something else. Experience it in another time, on another stage. This is a theatre of exploration, a potential space to give meaning, through the simultaneous appearance of images and words. By the poetization of bodies, by the art of suggestion, ask the audience to become, during the performance, a conscious mind, aware, full of dreams and alert to the bodies and voices. From conception to performance I find that I always face a dilemma whenever I begin a project in the actual concrete space of the theatre. On the one hand we have the living thing, the human bodies, the place where the living word, which is the theatre, is exhibited and on the other hand, we have the work of art: the poem, the text, the place of intimate exchange and of silent meeting, which Blanchot describes in the 'Espace Litteraire'... I think, like Maeterlinck, that the living thing can destroy the masterpiece, the poem. It is always this challenge that we must tirelessly take up whenever we take a literary work (not written for the theatre) and turn it into a work for the theatre. What can the actor or the director do faced with this finished work? Perhaps try and give back - by a presence, by something human, something living - a certain fragility, and the doubt which led to the conception of the work. Moments of doubt and sometimes discouragement and autoderision as often as possible. Sylvie Boutley

Sylvie Boutley Sylvie Boutley, who trained as a dancer and was a contemporary dance teacher and performer for many years, discovered in 1985 the world of the theatre with the stage director Claude Esnault and worked with him as an actress and an artistic collaborator. She now directs the 'La Roquille' company (formerly known as the S,B***) and the Avignon playhouse which has the same name. This playhouse fulfills a role of research, creation and training. A tutor at the university of Aix-Marseille, she also teaches in the theatre department of the Avignon conservatoire. Sylvie Boutley Compagnie La Roquille 3, rue Roquille - 84000 Avignon 04 90 85 43 68 email English translation : Emilie Crapoulet & Emily Blake