LA NUIT JUSTE AVANT LES FORÊTS

A long sentence with an epic sweep, describing the ordinary, existence, violence and exclusion. Because although the story of life is always the same – and often unjust – it must be retold, time and again.

An actor. A script. A space. And a stirring testimony from Koltès to the living. The living – wounded, swashbuckling, outlaws, yet so often masters of their own fate! It is here, on a metro platform with a dreamlike, dark atmosphere, tiled with shadows, that everything unfolds and is spoken. We are familiar with Matthieu Cruciani’s love of music in his productions. Here, it is Carla Pallone, from the group Mansfield.TYA, who makes this song of life even deeper, as raw as life itself. Also a composer for film, she knows how to capture that unique song of the city that echoes through the night. And who better than Jean-Christophe Folly to bring this poem of light to life with his wild vitality? A combative, physical, irresistible voice that strikes our bodies and their vulnerabilities. The actor mesmerises us and speaks to us, speaks to us again, and we find ourselves following him in his flight, seeking reasons to hope alongside him in this fragile humanity, proud even in its downfall.