Performance - What I Call Oblivion

Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune, 1bis place Victor Schoelcher

With the taste of words and forms that bear witness to the world and its ills. This is Laurent Mauvignier’s writing reborn in this short, sharp narrative, built on a single sixty-page sentence, here is the story: a young man enters a supermarket, drinks a can of beer, and does not come out alive. Beaten to death by four security guards. It is a “news item” that happened in Lyon in 2009 but could have happened yesterday, which Mauvignier turns into a literary and political breath, addressed to the victim’s brother. The staging, delicate and tense, with the actor and the music, makes it a spect…