Théâtre : VERNON SUBUTEX

Having already enjoyed a successful run at the Comédie de Picardie with Molière's Les fâcheux and Victor Hugo's Les travailleurs de la mer, the Livsnerven company adapts Virginie Despentes' famous trilogy. A hard-hitting rock score.

"Who is Vernon Subutex? The last witness to a bygone world. The last face of our inhuman comedy. The ghost of us all His story, as told by Virginie Despentes, is an x-ray of our society, where the joyful, assertive insouciance of the 1980s has given way to general collapse, waste, precariousness and poverty.

Elya Birman and Clémentine Niewdanski are sensitive to texts that address themes of contemporary solitude and incommunicability, and use the author?s words to "convey the virulence of her critique of our society and the power of her freedom to think about the world".

After more than 25 years as an independent record store owner, changes in the music industry forced Vernon to close up store, precipitating his exclusion from the industry and the horror of the street. Between the embodiment of a gallery of memorable characters and narration, the score moves from "profusion to emptiness, from fullness to emptiness", letting the full amplitude of the emptiness that invades alienated and afflicted beings burst forth in a furiously rocking energy.

At the heart of breathless suspense, Vernon?s sad epic impresses?

VIRGINIE DESPENTES
Her first novel, Baise-moi, was published in 1993 and translated worldwide. This was followed by Les chiennes savantes (1995), Les jolies choses (1998), Apocalypse bébé (2010), for which she received the Prix Renaudot? Her Vernon Subutex trilogy was published from 2015 to 2017. Most of her works have been adapted for theater, film and television. She also directs films based on her own novels, such as Bye Bye Blondie in 2011.

BY: VIRGINIE DESPENTES
DIRECTED AND ADAPTED BY: ELYA BIRMAN AND CLÉMENTINE NIEWDANSKI
WITH: ELYA BIRMAN, VINCENT HULOT, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LAURIER, NOLWENN LE DU, PAULINE MÉREUZE AND CLÉMENTINE NIEWDANSKI
COMPOSITION AND LIVE MUSIC: VINCENT HULOT
LIGHTING DESIGN: ZOË ROBERT
SOUND DESIGN: DAVID MAILLARD
SET DESIGN: ESTELLE GAUTIER

Created by compagnie Livsnerven
Coproduction: Comédie de Picardie, Centre Culturel Juliette Drouet - Fougères, Théâtre des 2 Rives - Charenton-le-Pont
Supported by DRAC Pays de la Loire, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, with the participation of the Jeune Théâtre National