How is children’s innocence transformed by the darkness of adulthood? In her new, strikingly fairytale-like, dreamlike work, Canadian artist Marie Brassard contemplates the notion of time and humans’ gradual exposure to violence as they grow up. Using an imaginative observation of her two-year-old goddaughter as a starting point, the director creates a hybrid performance, combining aspects of cinematic realism and expressionist theatre, sound arts and visual arts.
With Greek and English surtitles
INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION
PROLOGUE | PRE-SHOW TALKS
Young theatre and dance researchers introduce audiences to the performances
For many of us, a Festival performance is a fascinating, unexplored universe waiting to be discovered. What is the starting point of a performance? What “school” does it fall into? What can be inferred about the process of art making through the style of a particular performance?
Through this new practice, launched in the summer of 2021, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, in cooperation with the Theatre Studies Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as part of the Master’s programme “Greek and World Theatre: Drama, Performance, Education”, invites post-graduate students – theatre researchers and dance experts – to delve into the Peiraios 260 performances and facilitate access to this creative world for audiences. Young researchers and experts will whet festival-goers’ appetites and provide them with theoretical tools in order to give them a better understanding of the performance they are about to enjoy.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, all performance dates are subject to change
Written and directed by Marie Brassard
Sound design - Live music Alexander MacSween
Set design - Stage manager Antonin Sorel
Video design Sabrina Ratté
Films (Japan) Shingo Ota
Lighting design Mikko Hynninen
Additional choreography Miwa Okuno
Technical direction Romane Bocquet, Catherine Fasquelle, Mateo Thébaudeau
Production director – Tour manager Anne McDougall
Sound technician Gabrielle Couillard
Video technology design Guillaume Arsenault
Film editing Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
Head carpenter -Video technician Andrew de Freitas
Production manager (Japan) Moemi Nagi
Sound technicians (Japan) Takeshi Inarimori & Hayato Ichimura
Dramaturgy advisor Morena Prats
Coordinator Catherine Sasseville
Tour agent Menno Plukker
Performed by Marie Brassard, Miwa Okuno, Kyoko Takenaka
Produced by Infrarouge
Co-produced by Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), Theater der Welt (Düsseldorf), Théâtre français du Centre national des arts (Ottawa), Athens Epidaurus Festival, Usine C (Montreal)
Developed with the support of National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund
Creative residencies Montevideo (Marseille), Usine C (Montreal), Vitlycke Center for Performing Art (Tanumshede) at the invitation of Göteborg Dance and Theatre Festival, Kinosaki International Art Centre, Saison-Morishita Studio (Tokyo)
Infrarouge acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Montreal Art Council.
Special thanks to Marcello Spada & Cinema-Teatro Apollo (Bellaria) and Yokna Hasegawa
VIP 40€ • ZONE Α 30€ – STUDENTS / 65+ / ARTIST UNIONS 24€ • ZONE B 20€ – STUDENTS / 65+ / ARTIST UNIONS 16€ • PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES / UNEMPLOYMENT CONCESSIONS / ART SCHOOL STUDENTS 5€
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Audiences are required to display a valid vaccination certificate or disease certificate, in accordance with current health protocols, in order to be admitted to the performance venues.
Audience buses to and from Peiraios 260 are available.