SEASON 17-18 THEATER WITH SPECTATORS CONVENIENT THEATER OF THE BASTILLE WORST LOGIC 04> 14 OCT ETIENNE LEPAGE FREDERICK GRAVEL With Philippe Boutin, Yannick Chapdelaine, Gabrielle Côté, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon and Marilyn Perreault theater Étienne Lepage and Frédérick Gravel have a few things in common: these two Canadians, respectively author and choreographer, like to think of the stage as a play space where fragments of text, sounds and bodies coexist. They share a strong taste for the combination of thought and emotion. With Logic of the worst , they sign their second collaboration as directors. Their previous show was called Thus Spoke… , in reference to Nietzsche. This is inspired by Clément Rosset who, in his book Logic of the Worst, questions the possibility of a tragic philosophy that would dissolve the apparent order and face chaos. The scenic translation is embodied in five performers who nonchalantly inhabit an almost naked stage and unfold short corrosive texts featuring characters in initially banal situations, but which, pushed into their logical entrenchments, switch to the extreme: a woman finds herself in front of a door that does not want to open and ends up piercing the skull of the one behind; a man, addicted to sex, comes to shred his member by dint of masturbating; a woman lists the reasons for running away ... Sometimes the monologues turn into dialogues - or rather into a question-and-answer game - sometimes they pass from one to the other as in a relay. It is sometimes funny, often acid, sometimes delusional, often abundant, sometimes intimate, told as a confidence, often believed, exposed without make-up and without restraint: the characters state their weaknesses, affirm themselves as bad friends, bad " chums ”, bad sons and finally bad humans. Thinking here is like a combat sport which leaves no one at rest, and life is a ferocious and cruel farce which is better to face stoically. The performers, in their detachment in expressing horrors, could be frightening. It is not so. Because these beings here simply seek, with a form of indifference or candor, without filter, to understand and tell what is happening to them. Lost, carefree, casual, quiet or disillusioned, they observe situations as surprising and disarming things, like children in front of the big complicated game that is life. They are often dreadful, but never mean and, in a cathartic fashion, allow you to savor aloud the little quirks, the great shames and the mean faults usually stored under the carpet. LD VIDEO + PRODUCTION + NEWSPAPER page 1 Oct 4, 2017 LOGIC OF THE WORST LA TERRASSE OCT. 2017 / »Read the article [PDF] Calendar SHARE USEFUL INFORMATION 7:30 p.m. break on Sunday Duration: 1 h 10 TO VISIT www.danielleveilledanse.org TO DOWNLOAD Interview with Etienne Lepage association L'Envers de Paris SLIDESHOW See all images Bastille Theater Direction Jean-Marie Hordé 76 rue de la Roquette 75011 Paris Bastille 01 43 57 42 14 Hurry Sitemap Credits and mentions