Songe

Songe

Shakespeare’s theatre expresses the intimate and the political like no other

Marcial Di Fonzo Bo tackles Shakespeare's most enigmatic work, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Federico García Lorca's Comedia sin título in a piece that blends dreamlike imagery, video, and references to Goya. A story that unites two pairs of lovers, only to tear them apart. 

With Songe, we welcome the Académie Européenne – Angers, an experimental, multilingual and recently created company, made up of young European actors from different backgrounds and disciplines (acting, writing, directing, performance, dance and circus), the result of the multiple castings that took place in different theatres, including the TNC.

In Songe, the coexistence between night ‒ a time of ghosts and disorder ‒ and day ‒ a time of reality and order ‒ dialogues with Goya's Los Disparates, an extraordinary series of prints that has accompanied me since childhood and that denounces war, the Church and a conservative moralist society. From these prints, a poetics of complexity is born that departs from the usual paths of A Midsummer Night's Dream, between reality and the construction of a parallel reality (the magical world of the night). 

Songe speaks of theatre and the possibility of entering, with the bodies and words of the performers, a new space-time. As in a kaleidoscope, the characters are transformed, and lost between parallel worlds, illusions and hallucinations.

At this point where theatre confronts itself, a dramatic shift takes place and the last act is replaced by Lorca's Comedia sin título, a surrealist and meta-theatrical play in which revolution breaks out, precisely, in the midst of a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Marcial Di Fonzo Bo 

Based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and Comedia sin título by Federico García Lorca

 

New French translation

Olivier Cadiot (published by P.O.L.)

 

Direction and lighting

Marcial Di Fonzo Bo

 

Collaboration on direction and dramaturgy

Marianne Ségol

With the Académie Européenne - Angers: Olga Abolina, Amada Bokesa, Manuela Beltrán Marulanda, Magí Coma Larrosa, Andro Crespo, Julien Lewkowicz, Nathan Moreira, Miguel Peña Novo, Dylan Poletti, Lucas Resende, Charles Tuyizere

With Geoffrey Carey, Arthur Vonfelt

Set design

Alban Ho Van

 

Costume design

Fanny Brouste

 

Music composition

Arthur vonfelt

 

Video

Nicolas Mesdom

 

Makeup and hair

Cécile Kretschmar

 

Choreography

Lucas Resende

Set construction
Ateliers de décors de la Ville d’Angers, Mixt - Terrain d’arts en Loire-Atlantique


Production
Le Quai CDN Angers


With the support of Solstice, Pôle international de production et de diffusion - Angers - Nantes en préfiguration, dispositifs d’insertion des Écoles du TNB et du Théâtre du Nord, Prix Tremplin Leenaards / La Manufacture, Institut Ramon Llull, Institut culturel italien de Paris, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Ministère de la Culture


TNC Technical and Management Teams