Company F.O.U.I.We missed it at the Festival Off last year. And now she comes back with a punchy show full of restraint as much as violence. With I fly… And the Rest I will say to the shadows, Jean-Christophe Dollé signs again a powerful and rare show. To discover at 11 Gilgamesh-Belleville during the Festival d'Avignon OFF at 18:25.
I'm flying… A poignant second in the head of a killer…
We are March 28, 2002 and Richard Drun, author of a massacre in the middle of the Municipal Council of Nanterre, is heard at 36 Quai des Orfèvres. The time of a look away from these interrogators and the killer will throw himself out of the window.
- What time is it?
- 10 hours, 20 minutes and 37 seconds.
Like a refrain, this banal question followed by this answer as immutable as precise will punctuate the piece Je Vole… And the rest I will tell the shadows. The show takes place during a second, that of the fall, that of the fulfillment of a childhood dream, a universal dream: to fly.
We are in Richard Durn's head. In his memories, real or fantasized, in his past, his frustrations, his travels, his fears and his delusions. Caught in Richard's brain, the people and characters he met will engage in a real investigation: how can a man apparently steeped in humanity and beautiful principles come to commit this bloody act? This is how the three excellent actors will move from one role to another in a protean staging mixing magic, shadows, flashbacks and live music. We then oscillate between striking and surprising images and serious and relevant tirades.
A game full of accuracy and power
Thus, to try to understand what could have led Richard to the massacre and his suicide, Jean-Christophe Dollé summons, among others, Richard's mother, his theater teacher, Robocop, Brad Pitt, his only friend. Subtle process to never "show" Richard, whose presence is nevertheless tremendously felt thanks to the subtle play of the actors.
The costume changes are done on sight, the mechanisms of the theater are dismantled. But as soon as the actors invest their role, they do it with such commitment that we attach ourselves to each of them.
The monster must remain in the place of the invisible. Perhaps to give him flesh would be to absolve him."
We are in the middle of the Avignon Festival and I Fly… is decidedly one of the shows to see, as its subject of a glaring topicality is equaled only by the unprecedented treatment proposed by F.O.U.I.C !
