Eternal statues, wall-plated and alone
On July 7, 2016, the ceremony brought together more people and cameras than spectators when the play was created in 1996. Bertrand Hurault as Master of ceremonies to host the local officials, Philippe Caubère, Ariane Mnouchkine. Claude Djian and Charlotte Adrien gave some excerpts of “statues”, a street theatre variant, which was no small matter. There is the great strength of the theater. A text originally said in the dark and enclosed in an enclosed cube that finds itself projected in full sun on a sidewalk, still alive…
Then Ariane, the scissors in hand, in few words, half-voice, spoke of the body of man, of his unforgettable beauty and fury.
From a wise woman’s hand she cut the thread of what seemed to be an umbilical cord of the limbs and the black shroud fell, leaving the mark of a past beginning to appear, riveted to the wall.
And from there we saw thousands of birds emerge, each one screaming,