LE SILENCE

1 Rue Pierre Baudis, THÉÂTRE DE LA CITÉ

For his/her first staging at the Comédie-Française, Lorraine de Sagazan takes on the challenge of creating a wordless spectacle to explore how theatre can be a place of expression of the inner state of characters. She does not propose here an adaptation of a screenplay by Antonioni, but an original play inspired by her artistic approach – from the tetralogy around “the disease of feelings” (L’Avventura, La Nuit, L’Éclipse and Le Désert rouge), to her short stories and unrealized scripts. The play gathers themes dear to the filmmaker, such as disappearance, derelection…