In The Meursault Investigation, the Algerian journalist and novelist Kamel Daoud gives a voice to the brother of the anonymous Arab man killed by Meursault, the protagonist of Camus’ The Stranger.
In The Meursault Investigation, the Algerian journalist and novelist Kamel Daoud gives a voice to the brother of the anonymous Arab man killed by Meursault, the protagonist of Camus’ The Stranger.
Nicolas Stemann stages an imaginary encounter between the protagonists of these novels and their authors.
The German director, now artistic director of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, takes as his starting point the novel that revealed the incisive writing of the Algerian author Kamel Daoud to the world, Meursault contre-enquête: the obstinate quest of Haroun, who believes he is the brother of the murdered Arab man in L'Étranger (The Outsider). This brother has no name, even though he is at the origin of Meursault's profound metaphysical reflection on man's place in the world. In this critical homage to Camus, the Algerian novelist constructs a surprising work of fiction that reveals the hypocrisies of both Europe and the Maghreb since independence. With his two actors, Nicolas Stemann extends the story of the novel by staging the meeting between Haroun and Meursault, but also between Camus and Daoud. How can this meeting take place today, nearly sixty years after Algerian independence? How does decolonisation still affect the lives of people on both sides of the Mediterranean?
The respective arts of Daoud and Stemann know how to blend sharp criticism with lively and spirited literary or theatrical play. Using fictions as a starting point, they observe the delusions of history and their implications in the present. This duet/duel of actors set against a backdrop of mutual misunderstandings provokes a caustic, salutary and often mischievous re-reading of history... and of the way we look at ourselves, and at what is outside ourselves.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 8:00pm | Wed 06.10 | 20h00 |
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Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 7:00pm | Thu 07.10 | 19h00 |
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Friday, October 8, 2021 - 7:00pm | Fri 08.10 | 19h00 |
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Saturday, October 9, 2021 - 3:00pm | Sat 09.10 | 15h00 |
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Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 3:00pm | Sun 10.10 | 15h00 |
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 3:00pm | Tue 12.10 | 15h00 |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 8:00pm | Wed 13.10 | 20h00 |
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Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 8:00pm | Thu 14.10 | 20h00 |
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Friday, October 15, 2021 - 8:00pm | Fri 15.10 | 20h00 |
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mar 12.10 à 15h:
Au cours de cette représentation nous accueillons un groupe d'élèves accompagné de leur enseignant·e. Pour votre information, dans le cadre des activités scolaires en horaire de cours, le certificat COVID n’est pas exigé. Aussi, exceptionnellement, nous vous recommandons le port du masque et la distanciation pour assister à cette représentation en journée.
Meet the artists: Fri. 8.10 at the end of the show
Season'opening party: Fri. 8.10 with ZRO21 collective
Talk with Kamel Daoud: Wed. 13.10 at the end of the show
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Prices
From Fr. 8.- to 45.-
For example: Students : from Fr. 12.- to Fr. 0.- with the Passculture
Director
Codirecteur du Schauspielhaus de Zurich, l’Allemand Nicolas Stemann s’intéresse aux classiques du répertoire autant qu’aux écritures contemporaines, avec une prédilection pour celle d’Elfriede Jelinek. Chaque projet est l’occasion de réinterroger la forme théâtrale en convoquant à l’envi codes et outils disponibles, révélant l’actualité des enjeux d’une œuvre tout en la questionnant. Il met en place une utilisation très musicale du texte théâtral, le considérant avant tout comme une partition, s’affranchissant de la contrainte des personnages.
Dès 2002, il se fait remarquer par des mises en scène particulièrement libres d’Hamlet et des Souffrances du jeune Werther à Hanovre et, dix ans plus tard à Avignon, avec Les Contrats du commerçant de Jelinek et l’intégrale de Faust.
À Vidy, il a présenté en 2015 Werther! et il crée en 2016 Nathan?!, d’après Lessing et Jelinek.
Writer
Kamel Daoud is an Algerian writer and journalist. Through his novels (Meursault contre-enquête, 2013, awarded the 2015 Goncourt prize for a first novel; Zabor ou Les psaumes, 2017) and chronicles (collected under the title Mes indépendances, 2017), published in Algeria by Éditions Barzakh and in France by Actes Sud, he reexamines the silent legacies and contemporary challenges linked to colonisation, democracy, violence, fiction and religion with a singular, nuanced and non-complacent point of view. At Vidy, he took part in several events in the autumn of 2018.
▶▶ Introduction à Contre-enquêtes de Nicolas Stemann (Support pédagogique)
▶ Interview de Nicolas Stemann à propos de Contre-enquêtes #Vidygital
Direction and scenography
Nicolas Stemann
Video
Claudia Lehmann
Costumes:
Marysol del Castillo
Sound
Paloma Colombe
Nicolas Stemann
Lighting
Jonathan O'Hear
Dramaturgy
Katinka Deecke
Directing assistant
Mathias Brossard
With
Mounir Margoum
Thierry Raynaud
Production:
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Schauspielhaus Zürich
The Cercle des mécènes has extended its support to the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne for this play..
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▶▶ Rencontre avec Kamel Daoud 13.10.2021
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Meet the artists
Friday 8.10
at the end of the show
Talk with Kamel Daoud
Wednesday 13.10
at the end of the show
Propositions de lectures pour poursuivre le spectacle autrement (livres en vente à la librairie du Théâtre):
Théâtre de Vidy X ZRO21
8 October 2021
From 10 pm to 4 am with
DJ: Santo, TshiTshi, YoungTrap
VJ: Aladdine3000
Free shuttle to go back downtown