Dekalog (EN)

" We spent several weeks with TNS Groupe 45 reading the first five episodes from Dekalog. In doing so, it has become really important to me to keep discovering Dekalog with them. The mutual desire to explore it was the starting point of the project. Dekalog would be their very first professional show. I’ve intendedly not seen Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films. I broached Dekalog as a literary piece and started from the published text. What really moved me when reading it was how a commandment used as a title could pervade everything. The gaze on characters, the points of view and the way of thinking are constantly shifting. It both induces suspense and constant openness to the point of unfathomable depths. What is morality? It raises the question of supreme authority, a power that would be above all possible villainies. Some people, poor people mostly, start fighting battles which outcome can’t be foretold. In some way, man is deeply moving in its “insignificant nature”, when fighting against what’s greater than him. I’ve always found it fascinating. Maybe because it reminds me of theatre and the idea of struggling with a concept or a transcendent idea - something greater than us. It may be what theatre is all about ever since ancient tragedy. It is alive in Dekalog with equal power, and it echoes contemporary history. " Julien Gosselin *** FROM THE STORIES OF Krzysztof Kieślowskiet Krzysztof Piesiewicz writen by Krzysztof Kieslowski for polish tv in 1988. TRANSLATION Malgorzata Smorag, Beata Canes-Boussard (Éditions Balland, 1991) ADAPTATION AND STAGE DIRECTING Julien Gosselin WITH Majda Abdelmalek, Elan Ben Ali, Amine Boudelaa, Clémence Boissé, Léa Luce Busato, Jisca Kalvanda, Alexandre Houy-Boucheny, Leïla Muse, Achille Reggiani, Théo Salemkour, Léa Sery, Florian Sietzen AND Guillaume Bachelé et Maxence Vandevelde MUSICAL CREATION Guillaume Bachelé, Maxence Vandevelde SET DESIGN Lisetta Buccellato, Louise Digard, Marjolaine Mansot, Simon Restino COSTUMES Marjolaine Mansot, Caroline Tavernier PROPS Guillaume Lepert LIGHTING DESIGNER Louisa Mercier assistée de Zélie Champeau SOUND DESIGNER Félix Philippe VIDEO Baudouin Rencurel, Typhaine Steiner ARTISTIC COLLABORATION Jérémie Bernaert, Julien Feryn, Pierre Martin ASSISTANT STAGE DIRECTOR Simon-Elie Galibert, Jean Massé TOURING STAGE MANAGER Leo Thevenon STAGE MANAGER Marco Hollinger, Simon Haratyk, Guillaume Lepert LIGHT MANAGER Zélie Champeau, Louisa Mercier SOUND MANAGER Félix Philippe, Samuel Chabert VIDEO MANAGER Baudouin Rencurel, Typhaine Steiner COSTUMES MANAGER Marjolaine Mansot PRODUCTION Théâtre National de Strasbourg COPRODUCERS Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur and MC93 Bobigny EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION OF THE TOUR Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur WITH THE ARTISTIC COLLABORATION OF Jeune Théâtre National AND THE SUPPORT OF Le Phénix de Valenciennes et le Maillon de Strasbourg Set construction : Théâtre National de Strasbourg's workshop