Lorraine de Sagazan

Country: France
Company: La Brèche

Biography

After studying philosophy and training as an actress, Lorraine de Sagazan creates her first show in 2015: an adaptation of Norén’s Demons. The second is the adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. She closes her first cycle of adaptations in 2019 with L’Absence de père, based on Chekhov’s Platonov, a play she co-wrotes with Guillaume Poix.

With La Vie invisible, in 2020, a second creative cycle focused on collecting testimonies and exploring how fiction responds to reality starts with Guillaume Poix as co-author.

She “radicalizes” the gesture by going out to meet and question 300 people about reparation. Un sacre is created in 2021. She continues her immersive writing as resident at the Villa Médicis. Léviathan premieres at the Festival d’Avignon 2024 and is presented at the Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe.

In 2024, she also creates Le Silence based on Antonioni’s work at the Comédie Française.

She develops installations and performances including Monte di Pietà, at the Collection Lambert and the Lyon Biennial in 2024, Nature Morte for the Ferme du Buisson art center, La Défense for the Mac Val and Babel as part of Anish Kapoor’s Parliament of the Invisible in Venice in 2025.

Leviathan

Created July 15, 2024 at the Festival d’Avignon

Conceived and directed by Lorraine de Sagazan

Text Guillaume Poix, based on true events

With Khallf Baraho, Jeanne Favre, Felipe Fonseca Nobre, Jisca Kalvanda, Antonin Meyer-Esquerré (alternating with Romain Cottard), Mathieu Perotto, Victoria Quesnel, Eric Verdin and the horse Oasis

Dramaturgy Agathe Charnet and Julien Vella

Assistant director Antoine Hirel

Set design Anouk Maugein assisted by Valentine Lê

Light design Claire Gondrexon assisted by Amandine Robert

Costume design Anna Carraud Costume design Marnie Langlois and Mirabelle Perot

Video creation Jérémie Bernaert

Sound design Lucas Lelièvre assisted by Camille Vitté

Music Pierre-Yves Macé

Choreography Anna Chirescu

Masks Loïc Nebreda Loïc Nebreda

Wigs Mityl Brimeur

Horse staging Thomas Chaussebourg

Vocal training Juliette de Massy

Mask work Lucie Valon

Recorded music interpretation Silvia Tarozzi (violin) et Maitane Sebastián (cello)

Apprentice director Danaé Monnot

Coordination Manager Vassili Bertrand

Stage Manager Kourou

Administration, production, distribution AlterMachine – Marine Mussillon et Carole Willemot

Press relations AlterMachine – Camille Hakim Hashemi

Zlatoslava Novytska, Oscar Houtin et ateliers de la Comédie de Saint-Etienne

Thanks All the people who agreed to meet us, Cécile Geindre

Duration 1h45

Production La Brèche; La Comédie de Saint-Etienne – centre dramatique national

Coproduction TGP I Centre dramatique national de Saint-Denis, Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Comédie de Reims – centre dramatique national, Comédie de Béthune, Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne – CDN, Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre national de Bretagne, La Passerelle –Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc, Théâtre du Beauvaisis, L’Azimut – Antony I Châtenay Malabry, CDN de Normandie-Rouen, Scène nationale 61 (Alençon)

With artistic support from Jeune Théâtre National

Supported by la Région Ile de France

Residency hosts CDN de Normandie-Rouen, MC93 – maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny, Le CENTQUATRE – Paris, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Comédie de Valence

La Brèche is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture – Ile-de-France

Synopsis

Theater is used as a counter-space to question the workings of the justice system. The Leviathan, a biblical, philosophical and literary, figure poses the question: who is the monster?

Touring dates upcoming

November 28 to 30, 25: 3 performances at La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille

December 12 to 17: 5 performances at Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne

January 24, 26: 1 performance at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

January 28 and 29: 2 performances at Théâtre du Beauvaisis

February 4 and 5: 2 performances at l’Espal, scène nationale du Mans

February 11 and 12: 2 performances at Théâtre de Saint-Nazaire, scène nationale

March 4 to 6: 3 performances at Comédie de Béthune

March 11 to 14: 4 performances at Printemps des Comédiens in Montpellier

March 25 to 27 : 3 performances at Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand

April 2, 26: 1 performance at Théâtre des Salins, scène nationale de Martigues

Contacts for interests

Carole Willemot / Marine Mussillon