Sans tambour

Direction Samuel Achache In collaboration with the Autumn Festival

AGOTADAS

17 – 19 NOV 2023 From Tuesday to Sunday at 20:00 Show in French with surtitles in Spanish.

María Guerrero Theatre | Sala María Guerrero

Please arrive well in advance as the auditorium will be closed once the performance has begun.
To collect tickets, our box offices will be open from Monday to Sunday from 2.30pm to 8.30pm.

TEAM

Stage direction

Samuel Achache

Musical direction

Florent Hubert

Cast

Gulrim Choï, Lionel Dray, Florent Hubert, Sébastien Innocenti, Sarah Le Picard, Léo-Antonin Lutinier, Agathe Peyrat, Eve Risser, Antonin-Tri Hoang

Set designer

Lisa Navarro

Lighting

César Godefroy

Head of lighting

Maël Fabre

Costume designer

Pauline Kieffer

Musical composition

Antonin Tri-Hoang, Florent Hubert and Eve Risser

Wardrobe and utility assistant

Serge Ugolini

Collaborative arrangements

The Lieder of Schumann: Liederkreis op.39, Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42, Myrthen op. 25,Dichterliebe op 48, Liederkreis op.24

Dramatic collaboration

Sarah Le Picard and Lucile Rose

Control booth

Sarah Jacquemot-Fiumani

Poster design

Team SOPA

Producer

Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord & La Sourde

Co-producer

Théâtre de Lorient - Centre Dramatique National; Théâtre National de Nice; Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg; Théâtre de Caen; Le Quartz, Scène nationale de Brest; Festival d’Avignon; Points communs nouvelle scène nationale Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise; Festival Dei Due Mondi – Spoleto; Opéra national de Lorraine; Festival d'Automne à Paris; Centre d’Art et de Culture de Meudon ; Le Parvis – Scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées; Théâtre + Cinéma Scène Nationale Grand Narbonne; Le Grand R – Scène Nationale de La Roche sur Yon; Cercle des partenaires

Synopsis

Everything starts with the collapse of a house: a broken couple, a house full of rubble and inside, a piano that is nothing but ruins. When the man is about to sing, a small group of musicians come to help him so that the music can still be heard. Instruments have to be pulled out of the rubble and new ones have to be invented from the remains of the house. How do you rebuild following disaster?

Samuel Achache, whose work as a director is driven by music, uses this scenario of catastrophe as a starting point to construct a fiction about our possible rebirth. It is based on Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39, a great romantic work that sets texts by the poet Joseph von Eichendorff to music: separated from his beloved or his homeland by an impassable border, the hero must now find his way back across a reinvented geography. In an intimate and miniature form, the Lied is carried here by several voices.

Samuel Achache investigates the themes of collapse and rebirth in a fragmentary approach using Schumann’s Lieder, freely exploring the links between theatre and music.

Sans Tambour is the story of the sudden collapse of a house and of the people living in it. From this situation, Samuel Achache composes a piece with the actors and musicians in the form of tableaux that pass through various eras, from the present day to the Stone Age, and retracing episodes in the lives of the inhabitants of the house.

The stage is a work in permanent deconstruction, made of layers of the past and traces of the present. Songs emerge from the ruins and musical instruments from the rubble. Each musician-performer tries to reconstruct what is left of him or herself, of their distorted memories and their subjective memory.

Accompanied in the musical direction by Florent Hubert and some of his regular collaborators, Achache returns to a recurring musical form, using the intimate Lied as a starting point from which to create the ensemble, and relying on a choir of different voices.

It all begins with a rupture, that of a couple, their home and their history. They talk or sing, in the end it’s the same thing.
The end of their story is the beginning of ours, which is to build again on their ruins.

Samuel Achache

TEAM

Stage direction

Samuel Achache

Musical direction

Florent Hubert

Cast

Gulrim Choï, Lionel Dray, Florent Hubert, Sébastien Innocenti, Sarah Le Picard, Léo-Antonin Lutinier, Agathe Peyrat, Eve Risser, Antonin-Tri Hoang

Set designer

Lisa Navarro

Lighting

César Godefroy

Head of lighting

Maël Fabre

Costume designer

Pauline Kieffer

Musical composition

Antonin Tri-Hoang, Florent Hubert and Eve Risser

Wardrobe and utility assistant

Serge Ugolini

Collaborative arrangements

The Lieder of Schumann: Liederkreis op.39, Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42, Myrthen op. 25,Dichterliebe op 48, Liederkreis op.24

Dramatic collaboration

Sarah Le Picard and Lucile Rose

Control booth

Sarah Jacquemot-Fiumani

Poster design

Team SOPA

Producer

Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord & La Sourde

Co-producer

Biography

Samuel Achache

Samuel Achache studied at the Academy of Music of the 5th arrondissement of Paris with Bruno Wacrenier and continued his training at the National Academy of Dramatic Art. In 2013, he co-directed with Jeanne Candel Deceitful Crocodile / Dido and Aeneas, an opera-drama by Henry Purcell that won the Molière Prize for Best Musical. In 2015, he directed Fuga for the Avignon Festival. He resumed his collaboration with Jeanne Candel to direct Orfeo/ I died in Arcadia at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and The Fall of the House for the Festival d’Automne. In 2018, also for Festival d’Automne, he created Chewing Gum Silence with Antonin Tri Hoang and, in the same year, Songs with l’Ensemble Correspondance-Sébastien Daucé.

In 2019, the company Vie Breve takes over the direction of the Théâtre de l’Aquarium in Paris and it is there that in 2020 it directs The Original after a lost copy, conceived with Marion Bois and Antonin-Tri Hoang.