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SPECTACLES
Dekalog
" 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
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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 Pierre Martin, Julien Feryn, Jérémie Bernaert
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
COPRODUCTION MC93 Bobigny
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur
WITH THE ARTISTIC COLLABORATION OF Jeune Théâtre National
Set construction : Théâtre National de Strasbourg's workshop