Les Paravents

Les Paravents is a monster of a play with 96 characters, scenes to be performed simultaneously, overflying warzones and dialogues between the kingdom of the dead and the kingdom of the living. The impossibility of staging it is already clear to see. But this impossibility may have been overcome by my experience as an observer of Bunraku. I will direct Les Paravents with a strongly reduced ensemble: three actors will play Said, Leila and the Mother and four master puppeteers from the Youkiza company will perform all the other parts with the aid of marionettes and two French narrators. For Genet, Les Paravents is a dream or a vision of the theatre. »A festival for the living as well as the dead.« Les Paravents is also a comedy.
Frédéric Fisbach

Cast

Directed by Frédéric Fisbach
Stage Design Emmanuel Clolus
Lighting Design and Video Daniel Lévy
Music and Sound Design Thierry Fournier
Costumes Olga Karpinsky

With Valérie Blanchon, Christophe Brault, Laurence Mayor, Giuseppe Molino, Benoît Résillot und dem Marionettentheater Youkiza, Tokio [Magosaburo Youki, Ikuko Youki, Chie Youki, Setsuko Arakawa, Junko Hashimoto, Koh Hirai]