La Jeanne de Delteil

La Jeanne de Delteil Delteil sweeps away the question of Joan of Arc's real existence in a single movement.

La Jeanne de Delteil

Delteil sweeps away the question of Joan of Arc's real existence in a single movement. He fills us with a certainty: she lives. She is before us. Here she is, "the beautiful girl of victories". We are fascinated. Everyone deep down is satisfied, because the people want to believe in the young peasant girl who rejects "calculations as soft as cheese" and with whom one must always say "obviously"...

From birth to the stake, the great events are recounted to us, not from a historical point of view, but from that of the heart, of the central organ, of the muscle that beats and imposes its rhythm. Naturally, the staging follows the same pattern as the text. The show will take shape before our eyes. A single actress takes possession of a bare stage. True nudity, not that of absence, of stripping down, but of abandonment. A woman enters a resting theatre. Only the work light is on. The stage resembles that of all theatres in the world. There are the ladder for the lights, the slings for the fly system, the broom for the stage, the trolleys for transporting equipment, in short, the natural tools of the theatre. Confident in the power of the word, it will be enough for the actress to speak for the thing to exist. Full of faith in her art, the artist, mad with freedom, baptises as best she can: pulls out a table, climbs on it, and behold the beautiful horse offered by Charles VII! Scrupulously aligning projector stands, the entire living army she commands emerges! Naive joy. This theatrical generosity speaks to everyone. It maintains the strength of illusion.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

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Metro line 3: Gambetta stop / Bus 60, 61: Gambetta stop / Bus 26: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam stop / Car Exit Porte de Bagnolet Parking Gambetta