STAGE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
Creative Lab
"The work of laboratory is essential for me, to hear the text on the stage and to see the actors draw spaces, directions, intentions of games with the objects All the intuitions drawn before on paper can be discarded or confirmed here. It is the sctage design prefiguration in which the scenic setting is defined and the actors find their place.
There are always lab anecdotes! For the residences I had planned in one of the scenic proposals, potatoes as Lenin statuettes forming a star on the ground. They would be gradually reversed, and the star dissolved to represent the fallen USSR. This image has not been retained, but the potatoes have remained as a symbolic and aesthetic material, both a food shortage at the end of the union, but also as cloned characters (the Kommsomol pioneers), Accustomed to diseases! (Simple flags of red papers on skewers that the actress brings a name of disease before impaling them in the potatoes!)
It is by playing that strong image came. A gift from a comedian who suddenly takes hold of your objects and intuitions to make it something better.
The other anecdote, not the least, is the testimony of several spectators who at the end of the first performance have entrusted us to have recognized Lenin on the wall of the scenography. (Please note that they did not know each other). Hazard subliminal, inhabited space, viewed by the eyes of the "fatherland"? This did not fail to surprise the whole team, because it was not intentional on my part. I had unfortunately, or fortunately, slipped subliminal into the graphic treatment of scenography. The next day before the performance Roman, the musician, suddenly exclaimed: - "I have it, I see it!" We all finally noticed thanks to him! This is probably the best anecdote of this show! It's just amazing!
Anthony G.
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