Diphtong

What if we couldn’t say another word but we said it anyway.
A body alternating between young and old. A body that reflects, remembers.
He has this body that longs not to say another word but however it reflects, speaks. The time of a night. Longing to talk, hoping that the memory catches up with the recollection he can’t quite fully recollect : that which stopped him dead one time. And that asks him to speak. To speak about himself for himself.

The others who are there or not, surrounding him or not, are listening, taking interest in the recollection, risking history with him. Reinact the gestures, the force of the gesture that brought him to this longing to speak.
Elements come together, moving towards what happened. A camera flash in the life of a young man who is no longer there.
If happiness is the aide of a lost memory that burrows into the body to be expressed, what then is happiness ?

Hubert COLAS

Director and set design : Hubert COLAS

With: Thierry RAYNAUD, Boris LÉMANT, Pierre LANEYRIE, Jonathan BIDOT, Virgile COIGNARD, Peggy PÉNEAU, Frédéric SCHULZ-RICHARD, Xavier TAVERA

Music and song : KILL THE THRILL

Lighting : ENCAUSTIC - Pascale Bongiovanni and Hubert Colas

Video : Patrick LAFFONT, Marie MAQUAIRE

Technican : Arié van EGMOND

Production : Diphtong Cie
With the support of the Théâtre des Bernardines, Théâtre du Merlan - Scène nationale de Marseille and the Théâtre National de Marseille - La Criée.

Recieved assistance from the DMDTS in January 2000.
Comment cela est-il arrivé? Also received support from the CNL funds in 1997.

This text was published in 1997 with Théâtre Ouvert/Tapuscrit.
A new edition including new revelations on the young man ;s life came out in 2002 with Théâtre Ouvert/Enjeux with the generic title Diptyque.