Diphtong

Play written whilst residing at Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon.
Published with Éditions Actes Sud-Papiers.



Here are hopes; but what will you see and hear of them, if you have not experienced glance and glow and dawn of day in your own souls? I can only suggest-I cannot do more! To move the stones, to make animals men-would you have me do that? Alas, if you are yet stones and animals, you must seek your Orpheus!!

(Translator Walter Kaufman)

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

At the same time, here walk the night watchers
At the same time, ghosts maybe angels or demons
At the same time, many shopkeepers and other salesman....... they make the rules and sell the order of events, they are the new gods.
At once here walk, perched on the rooftops, two people born out of love.
There is a cry of pleasure, an exalted cry, an ecstatic song of love.
And then, of course, the doom of the new salesmen descends on their world,
They come there to spread their venom, and bite the beautiful one. Thus do death and its nocturnal lament scream out in the loved one’s body
Descending into hell, space is made for torture, for the trading of bodies.

Hubert COLAS

Director : Hubert COLAS

With : Philippe DUCLOS, Angela KONRAD, Sumako KOSEKI, Béatrice LOUVET, Peggy PÉNEAU, Frédéric PICHON, Thierry RAYNAUD, Laurent de RICHEMOND, Laurent SOFFIATI

Assistant director: Isabelle PILLOT

Lighting : Yann KERSALÉ - Pascale BONGIOVANNI

Costumes : Emmanuelle PERTUS

Sound : Olivier RENOUF

Music: Hector ZAZOU "Chansons des mers froides"
Annuka SUAREN NEITO

Video : Didier BEN LOULOU, Sophie BERNARD

Physical trainer : Sumako KOSEKI

Vocal coach / chant : Nicole JUY

Set construction : L'ATELIER ARTEFACT

Production : Diphtong Cie

Co-production : Théatre du Merlan scène nationale de Marseille, La Passerelle théâtre missionné de Gap

With the support of l'ADAMI, the Fondation Beaumarchais, the Festival d'Avignon 96, the Ministère de la Culture/Direction du Théâtre and Spectacles/Bureau des Ecritures, Conseil Régional Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur.