DIRECTED BY ROBERT LEPAGE
WITH THE ACTORS OF THÉÂTRE DU SOLEIL: SHAGHAYEGH BEHESHTI, VINCENT MANGADO, SYLVAIN JAILLOUX, OMID RAWENDAH, GHULAM REZA RAJABI, TAHER BAIG, AREF BAHUNAR, MARTIAL JACQUES, SEED KOHI, SHAFIQ KOHI, DUCCIO BELLUGI-VANNUCCINI, SAYED AHMAD HASHIMI, FREDERIQUE VORUZ, ANDREA MARCHANT, ASTRID GRANT, JEAN-SEBASTIEN MERLE, ANA DOSSE, NOGUEIRA MIGUEL, SABOOR DILAWAR, ALICE MILLQUANT, AGUSTIN LETELIER, SAMIR ABDUL JABBAR SAED, ARMAN SARIBEKYAN, WAZHMA TOTAKHIL, NIRUPAMA NITYANANDAN, CAMILLE GRANDVILLE, ALINE BORSARI, LUCIANA VELOCCI SILVA, MAN WAI FOK, DOMINIQUE JAMBERT, SEBASTIAN BROTTET-MICHEL, EVE DOE BRUCE, MAURICE DUROZIER
DRAMA MICHEL NADEAU
ARTISTIC DIRECTION BY STEVE BLANCHET
SCENOGRAPHY AND PROPS ARIANE SAUVÉ WITH BENJAMIN BOTTINELLI, DAVID BUIZARD, KAVEH KISHIPOUR, CLAUDE MARTIN
PAINTINGS AND PATINAS ELENA ANTSIFEROVA, XEVI RIBAS
LIGHT LUCIE BAZZO WITH GEOFFROY ADRAGNA, LILA MEYNARD
MUSIC LUDOVIC BONNIER WITH MARIE–JASMINE COCITO, YANN LEMAITRE, THÉRÈSE SPIRLI
IMAGES AND PROJECTION PEDRO PIRES
COSTUMES MARIE–HÉLE BOUVET, NATHALIE THOMAS, ANNIE TRAN
HAIRSTYLES AND WIGS JEAN–SÉBASTIEN MERLE
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LUCILE COCITO
The show is part of a programme in collaboration with ‘La Francia in Scena’ (France on Stage). La Francia in Scena is an artistic event promoted by the Institut Français Italia and was made possible by the French embassy in Italy, thanks to the support of the Institut Français and of the Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati.
National premiere
June 28 at 20.00
June 29 at 18.00
June 30 at 20.00
Napoli
Teatro Politeama
It’s the very first time that Ariane Mnouchkine entrusts the company of the Théâtre du Soleil to an external director, in this case Robert Lepage. The pièce immagined by the Canadian director brings together fragments of a great epic, retracing two hundred years of history in his country – “kanata” is the Iroquois word meaning “village, country” – in order to tell the opressions suffered by natives. It marks the encounter, through the actors, of two directors both convinced that artists may well be the best witnesses of their time.
