Ionesco Suite
Eugène Ionesco / Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and his artistic team question the universe of Ionesco.
The result of research and improvisation, Ionesco suite is a navigation through the heart of Eugène Ionesco's most striking obsessions: the difficulty of being, the manifestation of power and domination (emotional or intellectual), the arbitrariness of language and the fundamental impossibility of communication. An ode to the violence of his humour that goes back to the origins, plunging into the heart of the texts that opened the roads to the Absurd. The Bald Soprano and The Lesson but also others, largely unknown, such as Jack, or The Submission or Frenzy for Two, or More... In the same spirit of fluid, sharp and joking play, in complicity with the audience. A waltz of surprises and reunions, proof that Ionesco has lost none of his vitality.
BASED ON Jack, or The Submission , Frenzy for Two, or More, The Bald Soprano, Exercices de conversation et de diction françaises pour étudiants américains, The Lesson BY EUGÈNE IONESCO
DIRECTION EMMANUEL DEMARCY-MOTA BY LA TROUPE DU THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE
DIRECTION ASSISTANTS CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE, JULIE PEIGNÉ
SCENOGRAPHY AND LIGHTING DESIGN YVES COLLET
MUSIC JEFFERSON LEMBEYE, WALTER N’GUYEN
WITH CHARLES-ROGER BOUR, CÉLINE CARRÈRE, JAURIS CASANOVA, ANTONIN CHALON, SANDRA FAURE, STÉPHANE KRÄHENBÜHL, GÉRALD MAILLET
PRODUCTION Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
World premiere in 2005 at the Comédie de Reims / Re-created on November 29th 2018 at Théâtre de la Ville – Espace Cardin
Télérama
Irresistible actors and an exhilarating show !
Le Monde
A pleasing result: Ionesco leaves his clothes as a master of the absurd and becomes the revealer of fears and fantasies.
Le Figaroscope
Ionesco is great, deep, close and speaks to us in the most intimate way.
Press review for downloadLanguage: french
Duration of the performance: 01:15
- Show set-up D-1
- 14 people on tour, including 7 actors / 5 technicians / 2 others
- Set transportation 50m3
November 22-24, 2005 - Le Manège, Givet (France)
November 29 and 30, 2005 - MJC Calonne, Sedan (France)
December 1 and 2, 2005 - Espace Camille Claudel, Saint Dizier (France)
May 4-6, 2006 - Le Forum, Le Blanc-Mesnil (France)
May 11 and 12, 2006 - Palais des Arts et des Congrès, Vannes (France)
May 17 to 24, 2006 - La Comédie de Reims (France)
January 26 and 27, 2012 - Lycée Paul Bert, Paris (France)
February 2 and 3, 2012 - Lycée Molière, Paris (France)
February 13 and 14, 2012 - Lycée Claude Monet, Paris (France)
January 10 to 31, 2013 - Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (France)
February 19, 2013 - Espace 93, Clichy sous Bois (France)
February 27 and 28, 2013 - Amphithéâtre de l’Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Vélizy (France)
from September 27 to October 18, 2013 - Théâtre de la Ville - Les Abbesses, Paris (France)
from November 7 to 9, 2013 - Berliner Ensemble, Berlin (Allemagne)
from November 19 to 23, 2013 - TNB, Rennes (France)
from November 26 to December 3, 2013 - Festival Mettre en scène : Salle Didier-Georges Gabily / Bréal-sous-Montfort / La Selle-en-Coglès / Le Crouais / Pont-Péan (Département Ille et Vilaine, France)
July 1-3, 2014 - Hellenic Festival, Peraios, Athènes (Grèce)
October 15-19, 2014 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago (Etats-Unis)
from May 30 to June 7, 2015 - Cine Theatro Brasil Vallourec, Belo Horizonte / Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro / Teatro Paulo Autran SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo (Brésil)
June 17-21, 2015 - Festival International de Théâtre A. Tchékhov (Centre Vs.Meyerkhold), Moscou (Russie)
from November 29 to December 8, 2018 - Théâtre de la Ville - Espace Cardin, Paris (France)
January 23-26, 2019 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (Etats-Unis)
October 23-25, 2019 - Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
November 22-23, 2019 - Istanbul Theater Festival (Turquie)
September 24-25, 2020 - Théâtre du Beauvaisis, Beauvais (France)
April 21-23, 2022 - Teatro della Pergola, Florence (Italie)
April 2023 - Teatro della Pergola, Florence et Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan (Italie)
Caroline DUBOIS
Production manager
Tel : +33 1 43 12 44 54
cdubois@theatredelaville.com