Festival

24Heures, "Festival" bouscule les frontières à La Grange, Lea Gloor
"La création de collisions, déstabilisantes, entre la réalité et la fiction, l’insignifiant et l’extraordinaire, le quotidien et le récit."
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Pro Helvetia - Venice, mars 2023
"Clara Delorme, Claire Dessimoz and Louis Bonard were in Venice for a week in February 2023, resident at Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi. At the end of a week-long residency - during which she also worked with one of the most innovative actresses on the Italian scene, they shared with the public a study of the new work FESTIVAL."
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L'Atelier critique, 8.12.2023, Théo Krebs
"Mais que font ces étranges créatures, à mi-chemin entre des acariens géants et des extra-terrestres dans cette maison tellement normale pendant une nuit de Noël ? Elles contrastent de manière frappante avec la petite famille que nous avons pu voir évoluer pendant la première moitié du spectacle."
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L'Atelier critique, 8.12.2023, Piera Biondina
"La nature artificielle du théâtre est, petit à petit, littéralement déconstruite. Non seulement le quatrième mur, mais tous les murs constituant la maison de la famille tombent, et l’espace est utilisé par les créatures tel qu’il est, en révélant toutes les astuces des décors."
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Interview de La Grange
La Grange a interviewé Claire Dessimoz, Louis Bonard et Clara Delorme lors de la création de FESTIVAL.
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What is Festival about?
Festival tells two stories at once: that of a family's “magical” evening, and that of the magic of theater. And all that! From a situation that's a little too banal, the codes that govern the order of this family are shattered, and we come to the point where the fantastic infiltrates, and another world invites itself in: from between the walls, from under the beds, from the closets, from dreams and from the night. But we're also witness to a performance that sometimes crosses the line, sometimes plays with its own codes.

So Festival is also a play about dreams?
Yes, about our dreams (of a performance), but also about our nightmares. About what we hope to see, what we want to believe in or make others believe in. In that sense, we could say that we're talking about dreams, and hopes! But it's also about courage, the courage to do things that are not a priori like us, to confront forms that are beyond our grasp, that amuse or terrorize us, but that attract us in one way or another. For example, playing characters in a realistic set is both a practice that seems very ordinary in theatrical tradition, and a gesture that can be astonishing in contemporary theater! So, dream, nightmare, very good or very bad trip, you tell us :-)