LE SILENCE

1 Rue Pierre Baudis, THÉÂTRE DE LA CITÉ

For his/her inaugural direction at the Comédie-Française, Lorraine de Sagazan takes up the challenge of creating a wordless show to explore how theatre can be a space for expressing the inner state of characters. She does not propose here an adaptation of a scenario by Antonioni, but an original piece inspired by his artistic approach – from the tetralogy around the disease of feelings (L’Avventura, La Nuit, L’Éclipse and Le Désert rouge), to his short stories and unrealized scripts. The piece gathers themes dear to the filmmaker, such as disappearance, derelecti…