Sentinelles - Athénée

Text, direction and set design Jean-François SivadierWith Vincent Guédon, Julien Romelard, Samy Zerrouki Duration 2h20 As dissimilar as they are complementary, they support and challenge each other in a delicate balancing act.

To the sound of excerpts from Bach, Chopin or Shostakovich, they confront each other with tenderness on the battleground of ideas and interpretation.

Carried by three remarkable actors, this sensitive, funny and moving odyssey reveals the secret aspirations that jostle in every artist's heart.

Sentinelles, written and conceived for three actors, tells the story of three virtuoso pianists who meet in their adolescence and become, overnight, inseparable.

Admitted to a prestigious music school, they will spend three years there before entering an international piano competition, after which, for more or less mysterious reasons, they will be separated forever.

As dissimilar as they are complementary, each of the three admiring in the other two what they lack, the three men will support and challenge each other in a delicate balancing act, between their bonds of friendship and their fundamental differences regarding their relationship with the world and how they practice their art.

The trio's agreements and disagreements trace an initiatory path, at the end of which each has an appointment with himself.

A story as a pretext to question the opposing winds, the violent currents that can clash, agree or merge in the secret relationship that each artist maintains with the world... Sentinelles by Jean-François Sivadier is published by Solitaires Intempestifs (2021).

Delegated production MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-DenisCoproduction Compagnie Italienne avec Orchestre, Théâtre du Gymnase-Bernardines à Marseille, Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne, Théâtre-Sénart, Scène nationale, Le Bateau Feu / Scène nationale de Dunkerque, CCAM I Scène Nationale de Vandœuv