Artistes - Éric Cénat, Claire Vidoni
Secrétariat générale - Morgane Nory
Attachée de production - Clémence Grenat
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Compagnie itinérante
portée par la Région Centre - Val de Loire, subventionnée par la DRAC, le Département du Loiret et la Ville d'Orléans
Créée en 1986 par Éric Cénat, Le Théâtre de l'Imprévu affirme sa démarche artistique en lui donnant une ligne autour des mots, ceux qui donnent du sens et nous inscrivent dans le temps et l'espace. Grâce à eux, nous explorons notre passé, appréhendons notre présent et réfléchissons à notre avenir au travers de nos créations et actions culturelles.
Primo Levi and Ferdinando CamonConversations or The Voyage of Ulysses
From the book "Conversations with Primo Levi"
by Ferdinando Camon - Editions Gallimard 1991
Ferdinando Camon spoke for the first time with Primo Levi in 1982.
Their conversations will spread out regularly, then, until 1986.
Thus, two men talk to each other. Two writers, two "surveyors of memory": one is of Christian culture, the other, as we know, lived as a Jew, forty years earlier, the experience ofAuschwitz. The exchanges are both dense and fluid. Whatever the subject (Auschwitz, of course, and Germany - that of Hitler and that of today - but also Solzhenitsin's gulag, the act of writing, the profession of chemist...) the Thought tension arises between the interlocutors from the sense of urgency they both share.
Never complacent, nor overwhelming, the words of Primo Levi are a weapon, tonic, to apprehend the present and warn of the dangers to come...
“It seemed to me superfluous, even negative, harmful perhaps, to make rhetoric.
There was no need to underline the horror. The horror was.
It was better to let things tell their own story. ”-Primo Levi
“It is magnificent because it is of an intelligence
and of an extraordinary human truth…”
Favorite by Gilles Costaz
The Mask and the Feather, On the boards, France Inter - April 26, 2015
"Un true literary gem"
Michèle Lévy-Taeb – Jewish News
"A surprising moment of grace."
Hélène Kuttner – Artistik rezo
Production
Institutional partners
The National Office for Veterans of Loiret
The Center - Loire Valley and Ile-de-France regions
The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
The Center for Research and Documentation on the Jewish Internment and Deportation Camps in the Loiret (CERCIL) (Memorial Museum of the Vel d'Hiv Children) in Orléans
Creation 1995
Created in February 1995 in Corbeil-Essonnes (91)
From 1995 to 2001: 121 performances
Recovery 2015
Resumption in March 2015at the Essaïon Theater (Paris 4)
Since March 2015: 42 performances
Artistic team
Co-production:
Cie Passeurs de Memories
www.passeursdemémoires.fr
Interpretation - Eric Cenat(Camon) andGerard Cherqui (Levi)
Adaptation - Eric Cénat, Gérard Cherqui and Dominique Lurcel
Staging - Dominique Lurcel
Suits - Elisabeth de Sauverzac
Light creation - Philippe Lacombe
Poster watercolor - Liliane Lurcel
Supporters
Support for creation in February 1995
the Italian Cultural Institute, the Avignon Festival, France Culture and ADAMI
Support for recovery in March 2015
Show subsidized by the ONAC du Loiret, the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, the Center - Val de Loire and Île-de-France regions, the Loiret General Council and the City of Orléans._cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
With the support of the Cercil – Memorial Museum of the Children of Vel d'Hiv, the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (MahJ), the Italian Cultural Center of Paris and the League for Human Rights (LdH) .
This show got theLabel Missionof the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Liberation of the Camps.
Tour history
since the takeover in 2015
From April 12 to 162022
Iris Theater -Villeurbanne(69)
7April 2022
The dome -Saumur(49)
April 1, 2022
Neez workshop -Jurancon(64)
March 29, 2022
Marie Bell Gymnasium Theater -Paris(75)
April 30, 2021
ATJurancon (64)
From Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 March 2021
Iris Theater in Villeurbanne (69)
February 4, 2021
ATSaumur (49)
December 9, 2020
Marie Bell Gymnasium Theater inParis (75)
From 05 November to 12 December 2020(18 performances)
Marie Bell Gymnasium Theater inParis (75)- canceled health crisis
From March 30 to April 04, 2020(8 performances)
Iris Theater inVilleurbanne (69)- canceled health crisis
March 26, 2020
Shoah Memorial in Paris (75)- canceled health crisis
March 24 and 25, 2020
Mirror City ofCork (Belgium)-canceled health crisis
October 11, 2019 (2 performances)
Peskine Theater - History rendezvous in Blois (41)
July 31, 2019
Casino - Theater and literature in Normandy inTrouville sur mer(14)
From 05 to 28 July 2019 (23 performances)
Presence Pasteur atAvignon (84)
June 15, 2019
Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation inParis (75)
May 23, 2019 (2 performances)
Robert Desnos media library in Montreuil (93)
September 15, 2018
Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation inParis(75)
May 19, 2018
Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation inParis (75)
July 13, 2017
Surveyor's Festival at Les Adrets (38)
June 28, 2017
Notre-Dame de Cïteaux College in Kigali (Rwanda)
June 30, 2017
Residence of Belgium inKigali (Rwanda)
May 18, 2017
Theater ofDijon (21)
April 26, 2017
Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris (75)
March 30, 2017
Theater of Dreux (28)
December 10, 2017
Jacques Brel Theater intalange(57)
December 1 and 2, 2016(2 performances)
Theater ofFerney Voltaire(01)
From November 29 to 30, 2016 (4 performances)
Valère Theater inIf we (Swiss)
November 18, 2016
MJC Jacques Tati in Orsay (91)
November 09, 2016
The Column Theater inMiramas (13)
From 04 to 10 May 2016 (2 performances)
Theater Firmin Gémier La Piscine in Chatenay-Malabry (92)
May 20, 2016
La Courée cultural center incollege student (77)
April 29, 2016
Lionel Boutroouche cultural center in Ingredient (45)
November 10, 2015
Theater Auditorium atPoitiers (86)
October 20, 2015
ATP des Vosges / Cultural Center inEpinal (88)
October 02, 2015
Moulin de Grais Theater inVerrieres-le-Buisson (91)
From 04 to 26 July 2015 (12 performances)
King René Theater in Avignon(84)
April 16, 2015
CERCIL / House of Arts and Music inOrleans(45)
From March 2 to May 26, 2015(26 performances)
Theater Essay at Paris(75)
Production / Broadcast