End-of-second-year Project / 14th class

The students of ESNAM’s 14th class are concluding their second year with a production loosely based on Witold Gombrowicz’s play The Marriage, directed by Natacha Belova.

Wednesday 10 June at 7 pm & Thursday 11 June at 2.30 pm and 7 pm
At the Théâtre de l’ESNAM, 16 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Charleville-Mézières
Ages 12 and over – Duration:1h15 – Booking essential on +33(0)3 24 33 72 50 – contact@marionnette.co

In The Marriage, Gombrowicz orchestrates a ceremony where the figures of authority (the king, the father, the god) merge into a tragic and grotesque delirium. Language collapses, the statutes are overturned, logic is exhausted. He shows that humans are both prisoners of social forms and accomplices to their own alienation. This theatre of distorted forms offers a rich field of exploration for puppetry: a space of metamorphosis, of tension between the static and the living, between controlled form and unbridled expression.

During a six-week period, the students explored the themes of chaos, power, and human relationships. Constantly moving between work at the table, on the stage and in the workshops, they collectively conceived and created this project: experimenting with materials, stage work, visual and dramaturgical research…

Courtesy of Rita Gombrowicz. 

Direction: Natacha Belova
Assistant director: Laïs Argis, Héloïse Marsal et Nayara Martins Soares
Dramaturgy: Oscare de Coninck, Jordi Gallizia et Matteo Nifosi
Assistant: Maël Christyn
Construction, performance, manipulation by all the students: Laïs Argis, Anatole Aubin, Séraphine Boucreux, Oscare de Coninck, Isa Dehostingue, Ivan Duval, Jordi Gallizia, Elsa Léger (Patxi), Nicolas Longuet (Hornette), Héloïse Marsal, Nayara Martins Soares, Matteo Nifosi, Lucile Seilaz, Klara Van Rooyen, Anatole Verger Bernard (Gorka)
Manipulation coaching: Tita Iacobelli et Marina Simonova
Set design: Ivan Duval, Nicolas Longuet (Hornette) et Anatole Verger Bernard (Gorka)
Workshop manager and construction support: Manuel Dias
Costumes : Lucile Seilaz et Klara Van Rooyen
Sound creation: Laïs Argis et Isa Dehostingue
Sound engineering: Laïs Argis
Light creation: Stéphane Bordonaro, accompagné de Séraphine Boucreux et Elsa Léger (Patxi)
Light engineering: Stéphane Bordonaro
ESNAM stage manager: Thomas Rousseau
Videos / photos: Anatole Aubin
Logbook: Anatole Verger Bernard (Gorka)