La Reine Lear
Queen Lear
Tom Lanoye, Christophe Sermet / Cie. du Vendredi
Six years after the success of Mamma Medea, Tom Lanoye and Christophe Sermet join forces again to revisit a Shakespeare classic: King Lear.
The Flemish author turns Lear into a woman and places her in a contemporary setting, international high finance in a virtual world that lays waste to the corporeal.
At the head of an enormous empire, Queen Lear calls her three sons together to bestow an inheritance that is too huge to be the product of honest labor. A suffocating mother, she requires a verbal proof of her children’s love before deciding on a division between them. One of them, Cornald, refuses to play his mother’s flattery games and flees to an emerging country to develop a micro credit program.
It’s the beginning of the tragedy against a backdrop of climatic and financial storms. It will take Cornald’s life and witness the Lear family devouring each other as the assets of the company reel under the assaults of the competition.
Tom Lanoye doesn’t attenuate the strength and violence of Shakespeare’s King Lear. He adapts it by making language the heart of the piece, not the text, but the language. A carnal baroque language that puts the bodies in movement.
Calendar
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- 20:15
+ <a href="https://www.theatrenational.be/en/activities/487-en-bas-la-ville-frontieres"> vernissage expo Haïti - 19:00</a>
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- 19:30
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- 20:15
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- 20:15
Introduction - 19:45
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- 19:30
<a href="https://www.theatrenational.be/en/activities/719-rencontre-constructeurs-d-histoires">discussion 'Builders of Stories' after show</a>
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- 20:15
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- 20:15
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- 20:15
Information
Language
FR
Duration
120’
Venue
Grande salle
Surrounding the show
Introduction 15.01.2018 - 19:45 (15')
Surrounding the show
discussion 'Builders of Stories' after show 16.01.2018
Sound level
category 2
Cast
From the text « La Reine Lear »
Tom Lanoye
Translation
Alain Van Crugten
Direction
Christophe Sermet
With
Elisabeth Lear : Anne Benoît
Kent : Philippe Jeusette
Cornald : Iacopo Bruno
Gregory : Yannick Renier
Henry : Baptiste Sornin
Oleg : Bogdan Zamfir
Coralie : Claire Bodson
Alma : Raphaëlle Corbisier
Scenography and light design
Simon Siegmann
Sound design
Maxime Bodson
Video (design)
Kurt d’Haeseleer
Costume designer
Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Assistant Director
Vladimir Steyaert
Trainee
Marine Bernard de Bayser
Decorator
Eugénie Obolensky
Pattern designer
Isabelle Lhoas
Hairdressing & makeup
Urteza Da Fonseca
Scenography trainee
Victoria Penanhoat
Mechanical designer and motorization
Chris Vanneste
Manager of Cie.
Sylviane Evrard
Stage Manager
Cédric Otte
Video Operator
Ludovic Desclin
Light Operator
Corentin Christiaens
Sound Operator
Pawel Wnucznski
Stage hand
Ludovic John, Stéphanie Denoiseux, Dimitri Wauter
Touring support
Sabine Dacalor / Trajet(s)
Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Production
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Set construction and costumes
Ateliers du Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Co-production
Compagnie du Vendredi – Cie. Christophe Sermet, Théâtre de Namur, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod
Realized with the support of
la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Direction du Théâtre
In partnership with
Centre des Arts Scéniques
With the support of
taxshelter.be, ING & tax-shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge, Flanders Literature
Special thanks to
Céline Loop et Safdar Rahman
