L’EDEN CINÉMA
A bare stage is the setting for Duras’ theatre of the interior, the disaster that predates all her writing and the story that she always returns to — the Indochina of colonial times, the Chinese lover, family madness, a criminal older brother and a mother who is Mother Courage, the maternal figure to whom one remains forever attached.
The heartrending and persistent music of Marguerite Duras’ memory film is far removed from Cinéma Paradiso and its wave of nostalgia. Welcome to Éden Cinéma, where she projects her reminiscence onto the screen in an impossible autobiography that fluctuates between restoration and deception. Brigitte Haentjens was destined to one day plunge into Duras’ dark continent. After Électre et Antigone, after Marie Stuart and Élizabeth I, after Mademoiselle Julie and the fiery author of Malina, this play features Suzanne, the other face of Marguerite and Brigitte, an encounter positioned at the apex of emotion and pain.
TEXT
MARGUERITE DURAS
DIRECTION
BRIGITTE HAENTJENS
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR AND STAGE MANAGER
ISABELLE BRODEUR
SET DESIGN
ANICK LA BISSONNIÈRE
COSTUME DESIGN
JULIE CHARLAND
MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN
ROBERT NORMANDEAU
LIGHTING DESIGN
SONOYO NISHIKAWA
CONSULTANT TO MOVEMENT
HUY-PHONG DOAN
MAKE-UP ARTIST AND HAIR STYLIST
ANGELO BARSETTI
DRAMATURG
MARIE-CLAIRE LANCTÔT-BÉLANGER
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
ALEX GAZALÉ
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
XAVIER FORGET
PROJECT MANAGER
PAULETTE GAGNON
CAST
SONIA VIGNEAULT
CHRISTIANE PASQUIER
PAUL SAVOIE
PASCAL CONTAMINE
DENIS GRAVEREAUX
