LA CHAMBRE DE L’ÉCRIVAIN
Marc Lainé
SCÈNES D’EUROPE
Show premiered on 2 October 2025 at the Célestins Théâtre in Lyon
In May 1968, when Liliane and Paul met, the future seemed bright, their love ready to withstand the ravages of time, but fifty years later, disappointments have multiplied and dreams have been shattered.
In La Chambre de l’écrivain, we are now in 2021. Martin Langlois, their 45-year-old son, has become a director and sets out to tell the story of his parents’ troubled love affair. An unequal relationship, all too often based on power and domination. When he was younger, his father wrote a book inspired by his love affair with his mother, without ever telling her about it, without ever asking her opinion, and that book nearly drove her mad. Today, Liliane is 72 and cannot forgive her son for appropriating her story, just as his father did before him. Paul, meanwhile, is 80 and never leaves his nursing home room. Their conversations are disjointed, but he understands that his father is working on a final novel, intended to recount his origins.
Rehearsals for the show and tensions with his parents plunge Martin into a personal crisis. Plagued by insomnia, he spends his nights in the set of his show, where, one fine morning, a young technician discovers him. For hours on end, they discuss politics, love and art… but the young woman shakes Martin’s convictions to the core, to the point of making him doubt the very necessity of completing his production…
Tarifs
- Plein tarif 31 €
- 65ans+/Carte prof/Groupe10+ 26 €
- -30ans/Pro/Dem.d'emploi 13 €
- Groupe scolaire 8 €
- -15ans 7 €
- Etudiants Conservatoires Art de la parole 5 €
Distributions
Text, direction and set design by Marc Lainé
Starring Marcel Bozonnet, Stéphane Excoffier, Vladislav Galard, Adeline Guillot, Selma Noret-Terraz, Paolo Rezze, Vincent Segal, Charles-Henri Wolff
Music by Vincent Segal
Lighting by Kevin Briard
Sound: Clément Rousseaux-Barthès
Video by Baptiste Klein
Costumes by Dominique Fournier
Assistant Director: Antoine de Toffoli
Set design collaboration: Stephan Zimmerli
Set construction: Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège
Production: La Comédie de Valence, CDN Drôme-Ardèche
Co-production Théâtre de Liège, DC&J création, Les Célestins Théâtre de Lyon
Supported by the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter, Inver Tax Shelter and the SACD Fund / Ministry of Culture, Grandes Formes Théâtre
Text published by Actes Sud-Papiers (2025)
Stephan Zimmerli is a member of the artistic ensemble of La Comédie de Valence CDN Drôme-Ardèche
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