Projects
The Battle Scene
THE BATTLE SCENE SCORE
The stage is a raft on water.
On stage there are remains of a shipwreck: deflated floats, piles of clothes.
On stage the artist rests on the sand.
I
THE ENTRANCE: A RETURN
The actors of the reconstruction of the battle come back on stage one after the other, a grin on their faces.
Seven actors advance in queue to the rhythm of music, toward the raft.
II
THE DROWNING: A DECISION
The actors stand on the raft, gaze at the public defiantly. They decide. They plunge their heads into buckets of water repeatedly, reconstituting their own drowning. They lie on the shore.
III
THE SCENE: A PAINTING
The artist numbers the dead and traces the outlines of the crime.
IV
THE REVIVAL: A BEGINNING
(The actors take the audience as witnesses as they proceed with their stage actions)
Three men rise. They wring their clothes and head to the arena of the stage.
In unison they beat their clothes on the floor.
They beat the ground with their clothes.
Four women rise.
They pass through the arena together.
They stop in the front of the arena. Fix the public with their gaze.
They stretch their bodies on the floor. Corpses.
The men revive the women with their breath.
The women regain their breath, coughing: the beginning of the word.
The men retire, each to his space on stage.
The women stand up, they take off their jackets.
In unison they beat their clothes on the floor.
They beat the ground with their clothes.
They stop.
A woman returns to her previous position on the floor. A corpse.
The others withdraw themselves one by one and go towards the men.
Couples meet, find each other, embrace, and start to rotate on themselves slowly.
V
THE DEAD: A SURVIVOR
A–The Young Lovers:
The meeting: the clouds as museum
They look at a painting; the stage
The Discovery: the revolution of the Negroes
"The Raft of the Medusa"
B–The Clueless Ones
C–The Parents
VI
THE RALLYING: THE INCARNATION OF THE CRIME
VII
THE FLAGELLATION: A BATTLE
VIII
POLIS
The Man King: declaration of war
The Woman: a chorus of women remove the veil
The City: a front
IX
THE STAGE: A SONG - A BATTLE FIELD
The actor is a warrior
The action a verb
