François Gremaud
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PHÈDRE!
Alone on stage, Romain Daroles plays with the different facets of a work that he unfolds before our eyes; a unique and marvelous language of Racine, the force of passion that he depicts better than anyone, the mythological origins of protagonists.
Welcoming the audience with a broad smile on his face and a little book in his hand, the actor Romain Daroles seems to be waiting for us like a speaker overflowing with enthusiasm and a past master in the art of digression. He is passionate about the play by Jean Racine and his historical context, ecstasies in front of the art of the Alexandrian, quotes Barbara and Dalida, never to the shelter of a side step or a touch of schoolboy humor. The piece does not seem to have yet started and here we are, surveying the mythical genealogy of Phèdre by his side. Queen of Athens, wife of Theseus, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, granddaughter of the Sun and a half sister of the Minotaur … the treasure hunt takes the form of a learned labyrinth that the actor unties before our eyes. Writing a play in the play, from tragedy to comedy (and vice versa), François Gremaud thus celebrates the joy of transmitting, and above all, love of the theater.
Biography(s)
Conception, direction :
After studying at the Ecole cantonale d’Arts de Lausanne (ECAL), François Gremaud trained as a director at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS) in Brussels.
2b company :
He co-founded with Michaël Monney the association 2b company in 2005, with which he presented his first creation, My Way, which met with great critical and public success. His show Simone, two, three, four in 2009 marks his first collaboration with the visual artist Denis Savary, as well as with the actors Pierre Mifsud, Catherine Büchi and Léa Pohlhammer. In 2009, based on a unique spatio-temporal concept he imagined, he presents KKQQ during the Festival des Urbaines in Lausanne, which marks the beginning of his collaboration with Tiphanie Bovay-Klameth and Michèle Gurtner. Produced by the 2b company, they founded together the collective GREMAUD/ GURTNER/BOVAY and under this name co-signed between 2009 and 2019 Recital, Presentation, Western dramedies, Vernissage, Fonds Ingvar Håkansson, Les Potiers, Les Soeurs Paulin, Pièce and – in collaboration with Laetitia Dosch – Chorale. At the same time, still within the 2b company, François Gremaud continues his activities as a director and presents Re in 2011, his second collaboration with Denis Savary. He creates the first version of Conférence de choses in 2013, a show performed and co-written by Pierre Mifsud. The complete cycle of nine Conférences de choses was created in 2015 in Lausanne and Paris. Its complete version takes eight hours and meets a very important critical and public success, in Switzerland as in France.
In 14 years, the 2b company has built a repertoire of original creations consisting of shows and small forms, theatrical or other (films, publications, songs …). Considered by critics as one of the most innovative theatrical companies in French-speaking Switzerland, holder of two Contracts of Confidence with the City of Lausanne, it tours successfully in Switzerland and abroad.
Credits
Distribution :
Conception, direction : François Gremaud
Assistant director : Mathias Brossard
Lighting : Stéphane Gattoni
Text : Jean Racine, François Gremaud, Romain Daroles
With : Romain Daroles
Credits and mentions :
Production : 2b company
Delegated production: Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
With the support of : Loterie Romance – Migros Cultural Percentage – Hirzel Foundation – City of Lausanne
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