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Manuel d’exil

Maya Bösch

Manuel d’exil

by Velibor Čolić

When Velibor Čolić first wandered the streets of Rennes, it was 1992 and he was 28 years old. A soldier who was forcibly conscripted, he had fled the horrors of war in his country, Bosnia. He is a poet, he says, that will save him.

When Velibor Čolić first wandered the streets of Rennes, it was 1992 and he was 28 years old. A soldier who was forcibly conscripted, he had fled the horrors of war in his country, Bosnia. He is a poet, he says, that will save him. His exile becomes a book, his words a mixture of dark poetry and gentle irony in the mouth of Jean-Quentin Châtelain, directed by Maya Bösch.

Upon arriving in France, he confesses to knowing only three words: Jean, Paul and Sartre. But he will learn, willingly or not, the language of his new country, locking up his memories in his mother tongue. For his words will be his guide through the labyrinth of indifference he must now navigate. In his room in the reception centre, he writes poems and lists of things, faces and places to forget. He gets lost, gets beaten up, gets drunk, collapses, gets up again.

A few years later, he publishes Manuel d'exil - comment réussir son exil en trente-cinq leçons, in which he tells his story, goes back over his mental and physical wandering, and exposes his soberly distanced lucidity on the person he has become and to whom he cannot get used: a faceless exile trapped in the confines of his own body and in the streets of Western Europe.

Maya Bösch hears this voice written on the uncertain paths of exile. She recognises something of the actor Jean-Quentin Châtelain in this anchored phrasing, full of desire and life. The three of them – the author and the actor with their robust, stocky bodies and the director – put the novel to the test on stage, travelling together along migratory routes that lead nowhere, except perhaps to the self.

From 15 to 22 December 2021
Durée:
1h20
Salle René Gonzalez

Theater
Suggested age: from 14 y.o.

Dates and times

Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - 7:30pm Wed 15.12 19h30
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Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 7:30pm Thu 16.12 19h30
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Friday, December 17, 2021 - 7:30pm Fri 17.12 19h30
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Saturday, December 18, 2021 - 7:30pm Sat 18.12 19h30
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Sunday, December 19, 2021 - 6:30pm Sun 19.12 18h30
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Tuesday, December 21, 2021 - 7:30pm Tue 21.12 19h30
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021 - 7:30pm Wed 22.12 19h30
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Maya Bösch

Director

Maya Bösch

Née en 1973 à Zurich, Maya Bösch conçoit des formes théâtrales au caractère explicitement exploratoire. Dans le cadre d’études de mise en scène à l’Université de Bryn Mawr à Philadelphie (USA), elle se concentre sur le Political Theater. En 2000, elle fonde sturmfrei à Genève, compagnie indépendante et pluridisciplinaire de théâtre avec laquelle elle explore des écritures contemporaines, Heiner Müller, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, Sarah Kane, Allen Ginbserg, mais s’empare également des classiques, Franz Schubert, Shakespeare, Dante ou Eschyle. De 2006 à 2012, elle dirige avec Michèle Pralong le GRÜ/ Transthéâtre Genève, en faisant une scène expérimentale et pluridisciplinaire de théâtre. En 2015, elle reçoit le Prix suisse du théâtre. En 2019, elle présente à Vidy Pièces de guerre en Suisse de l’autrice Antoinette Rychner. Depuis 2020, elle est artiste associée au Manège Maubeuge, scène nationale et curatrice du nouveau festival pluridisciplinaire « ITAK », en collaboration avec Géraud Didier.

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Credits

Création septembre 2021

Texte
Velibor Čolić
édité chez Gallimard, 2016

Conception, adaptation, mise en scène
Maya Bösch

Scénographie
Sylvie Kleiber

Assistante scénographie
Wendy Tokuoka

Lumière
Laurent Junod

Costumes
Gwendoline Bouget

Son
Maïa Blondeau

Construction scénographie-lumière
Lionel Haubois

Administration
Estelle Zweifel - Le Bureau de la Joie !

Avec
Jean-Quentin Châtelain

Production
Compagnie sturmfrei

Coproduction
Théâtre St-Gervais Genève
Manège Maubeuge, scène nationale
Avec le soutien de la République et du Canton de Genève, Pro Helvetia, Loterie Romande, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Fondation Leenaards, Fondations privées

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Jeudi 16.12
à l'issue de la représentation

Press reviews
Manuel d'exil - Le Temps
30 September 2021
 

"A Genève, Jean-Quentin Châtelain raconte l’exil sans fin "

 

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