Masterfully mixing live and video art, Cyril Teste takes on Chekhov’s The Seagull. By filming his actor’s faces as closely as possible, chiselling silhouettes through a play of light and shadow, and ever-so-slightly shifting the focus towards the intimate, he sketches a cinematic saga – a fatal circle dance that swallows up people and souls. An uncompromising theatrical mise en abyme.

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• Distribution

  With : Vincent Berger, Olivia Corsini, Katia Ferreira, Mathias Labelle, Liza Lapert, Xavier Maly, Pierre Timaitre, Gérald Weingand

  Directing : Cyril Teste

  Artistic collaboration : Marion Pellissier et Christophe Gaultier

  Directing assistant : Céline Gaudier (creation) et Anaïs Cartier (tour)

  Dramaturgy : Leila Adham

  Scenography : Valérie Grall

  Lights creation : Julien Boizard

  Video creation : Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

  Original pictures : Nicolas Doremus and Christophe Gaultier

  Videos creation in synthetic images : Hugo Arcier

  Original music : Nihil Bordures

  Sound engineer : Thibault Lamy

  Costumes : Katia Ferreira and her assistant Coline Dervieux

  Technical direction : Julien Boizard

  Management : Simon André

  Set management : Guillaume Allory, Simon André, Frédéric Plou ou Flora Villalard

  Sound management : Nihil Bordures, Thibault Lamy ou Mathieu Plantevin

  Light management : Julien Boizard, Nicolas Joubert ou Rodolphe Martin

  Video management : Baptiste Klein, Pierric Sud ou Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

  Cameramans-machine operator : Nicolas Doremus, Christophe Gaultier, Paul Poncet ou Marine Cerles

  Management, production and diffusion : Anaïs Cartier, Florence Bourgeon et Ludivine Rhein

  Press relation : Olivier Saksik helped Manon Rouquet

  Some videos of Hugo Arcier are from De rerum natura.

  The set is built by Artom Atelier.

  The pictures are assembled and diffused with the server media Smode.

  To our patner Hervé Blanc

• Mentions

  Production : Collectif MxM

  With the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as the part of the program of New Settings

  Coproduction Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy – Théâtre du Nord CDN de Lille Tourcoing Hauts-de-France – Printemps des Comédiens, Montpellier – TAP-Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers – Espace des Arts Scène nationale de Chalon sur Saône –Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Scène Nationale – Comédie de Valence, Centre dramatique national Drôme Ardèche – Malraux Scène nationale Chambéry-Savoie – Le Grand T, Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique – Théâtre Sénart-Scène nationale – Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon – Scène Nationale d’Albi – Le Parvis Scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées – Théâtre Vidy Lausanne – CDN Orléans Centre-Val de Loire – La Coursive, Scène nationale La Rochelle

  With the support and the participation of Fonds de dotation Francis Kurkdjian, du DICRéAM, of Smode Tech, as part of the program of european territorial cooperation INTERREG V France-Switzerland as part of the project PEPS Annecy-Chambéry-Genève-Lausanne, du Théâtre Monfort, de la Maison Jacques Copeau

  Acknowledgements : Jacqueline Berthier, Mireille Brunet-Hermet, Jean-Pierre Dos, Ivan Grinberg, Joël Jouanneau, Michel Labelle, Béatrice Picon-Vallin, Olivier Schnoering

  The Group MxM is an associated artist of Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy and the Maison Jacques Copeau, and supported by the DRAC d’Île-de-France – Minister of Cultures and the Region Île-de-France.

  Julien Boizard, Nihil Bordures and Cyril Teste are members of the artists’ pool of l’Espace des Arts. Cyril Teste is a member of  l’Ensemble artistique de La Comédie de Valence, Centre dramatique national Drôme-Ardèche.

  Photo : © Simon Gosselin

• around the show

  Saturday december 10th at 5pm: Petite fabrique

  Monday, december 12th : Meeting with the team at the end of the show