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Play "La Vie Invisible", directed by Lorraine de Sagazan
14.05.2023
Sunday, May 14 at 4 p.m.
Grand Salon of Villa Medici
Show in French
Price: €5
Free for SOLO, DUO or TRIBU cardholders
Concept and direction: Lorraine de Sagazan
Text: Guillaume Poix
Artistic collaboration and dramaturgy: Romain Cottard
With Romain Cottard, Chloé Olivères and Thierry Sabatier
| Thierry has been blind for almost forty years. An amateur actor, he reconstructs the memory of a show that moved him, but for which he remembers neither the title nor the names of the characters. A captivating theater experience about perception, memory and self-construction. |
For writing this piece, which questions the place of images in our perception of reality, Lorraine de Sagazana resident at Villa Médicis, and author Guillaume Poix collected testimonies from blind and partially-sighted people, with a view to exploring their relationship with memory and fiction. Starting out as an investigation into perception, La Vie invisible turns into an unsettling meditation on the notion of point of view, underpinned by the experience of a blind person.
This play has already been presented many times on the French stage. For its Italian premiere, it invites spectators to a sensory and visual experience in the Grand Salon of the Villa Medici, introducing them to the mysterious and singular condition of so-called blind beings.
Lorraine de Sagazan
Alongside her training as an actress, Lorraine de Sagazan studied philosophy. In order to train as a director, she left for Berlin in 2014 to assist Thomas Ostermeier. On her return, she worked on adaptations of repertory texts: Lars Noren’s Demons, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Anton Chekhov’s L’Absence de père, presented notably at the Nuits de Fourvière, Centquatre and MC93.
In 2020, she began a new cycle of work questioning how fiction can respond to reality. This research gave rise to her first two shows, La Vie invisible and Un sacre, created at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe in Saint-Denis, where she is associate artist. Her multi-faceted projects, at the crossroads of performance, the performing arts and the visual arts, have been exported both abroad and throughout France.
Guillaume Poix
Guillaume Poix is a novelist, playwright and translator, having studied at the École normale supérieure and graduated from Ensatt in playwriting.
In 2014, he published his first play, Straight, winner of Artcena’s Aide nationale à la création des textes dramatiques and Prix des Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre in 2014, Prix Godot des lycéens and Prix Sony Labou Tansi des lycéens in 2016. Et le ciel est par terre, Tout entière, Fondre and Soudain Romy Schneider (finalist for the Grand Prix de littérature dramatique 2020, broadcast on France Culture in September 2021 – Grand Prix de la Fiction radiophonique francophone de la Société des Gens de Lettres 2022) follow.
Since 2019, he has been collaborating with director Lorraine de Sagazan. Together, they have created L’Absence de père based on Chekhov’s Platonov (2019), La vie invisible (2020, broadcast on France Culture in March 2021) and Un sacre (2021).
La Vie Invisible © Christophe Raynaud de Lage
Portrait Lorraine de Sagazan © Daniele Molajoli
Portrait Guillaume Poix © Francesca Mantovani
