Gabrielle Lubtchansky

June 2019 WHY

Why theatre ? What’s it for ? What is it about ?

We will take these questions, and many others, with us on a journey dramatic and joyful. We will discover that we are not alone, that many great practionners of theatre have been inspired by them. This is « why » we do « why ».

« Theatre is a very dangerous weapon. » – These words have been written in the 1920s by one of the most creative, most innovative, directors the theatre has known. His name is Meyerhold. He saw all the menacing dangers that the theatre and art in general was going through in the 30s in Russia. He read « the writing on the wall », as we call it, but he did not stop, he hoped until the last minute that the revolution could win, and paid for this with his life.

CREDITS

Text and stage direction Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

Lightening Philippe Vialatte

Images Gabrielle Lubtchansky

With Hayley Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni