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©Jean Daniel Piguet

Jean-Daniel Piguet (CH/FR)

Partir

Théâtre

  • 90’
  • G Hearing loops
  • E Partially-sighted spectators welcome
  • B Accessible to persons with reduced mobility

Conception, mise en scène: Jean-Daniel Piguet en collaboration avec toute l'équipe de création. Texte: Nicolas Doutey, Jean-Daniel Piguet. Avec: Marika Dreistadt, Pascal Gravat, Marie-Madeleine Pasquier, Jean-Daniel Piguet, Lucas Savioz. Scénographie et lumière: Estelle Gautier, Florian Leduc. Création sonore: Clément Edouard. Création audiovisuelle: Pierce Warnecke. Costumes: Anna Cressaty. Assistanat et dramaturgie: Remi Dufay. Administration: minuit Pile (Emma Ducommun et Marion Houriet). Production: Cie DanielBlake. Coproduction: Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Le Grütli – Centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants, Genève. Soutiens: Ville de Lausanne, Fondation Leenaards, Fondation Nestlé pour l’art, Fondation Casino Barrière, Société Coopérative Migros Vaud, Pro Helvetia, Etat de Vaud, Loterie Romande, Fondation Michalski. Un projet initié dans le cadre de la Mission Recherche de La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne.

During the summer of 2012, Jean-Daniel Piguet accompanied his father in hospital during the last month of his life. Wanting to take full advantage of these moments, they both decide to carry out one last project together. Camera in hand, the director began filming his father in order to document what he wanted to leave behind. Seven years later, Jean-Daniel Piguet revisited these filmed moments and, in collaboration with Nicolas Doutey, wrote a play. Partir comes from the desire to transcribe what is said in the final moments of a life, to measure the power and powerlessness of language. The play explores the threshold moment between life and death in order to share the ordinary landscape of a hospital room in which emotions can inhabit simple details.