This Child
by Joël Pommerat
CAST:
Saadia Bentaïeb
Agnès Berthon
Lionel Codino
Ruth Olaizola
Jean-Claude Perrin
Marie Piemontese
A show by Joël Pommerat
Set design and lighting design: Éric Soyer
Costume design: Isabelle Deffin
Original music: Antonin Leymarie
Research and sound script: François & Grégoire Leymarie
Musicians:
trumpets: Aymeric Avice, Guillaume Dutrilleux
electric piano, organ, keyboards: Boris Boublil
drums: Antonin Leymarie
saxophone: Rémi Sciuto
guitar, bass guitar: Fred Pallem
Play duration: 1h 10' (without intermission)
A playwright, stage director and entertainer, Joel Pommerat produces his shows together with close collaborators and actors from Louis Brouillard Company in Paris, a company that he set up 18 years ago and is now in residence at Bouffes du Nord Theater managed by Peter Brook. The revelation of the year at Avignon in 2007, among others with Cet Enfant, Pommerat presented a new show in 2008 – Je tremble (I Tremble), and continues to draw the attention of critics and the world of theater at large.
Cet Enfant, a show about relations between parents and children in a world that grows increasingly tense and devoid of humaneness, received the French critics’ award in 2006 and was presented in June 2008 at Theater der Welt Festival.
