* The individual blocks are part of a ten-hour performance. This may result in delays in the individual starting times.
In Musée Duras, French theatre maker Julien Gosselin transports the existential power of the French writer Marguerite Duras’ texts into the present over the course of one long day together with a group of young actors.
'He told her that he was still in love with her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her to his death.' – Julien Gosselin's Musée Duras is made up of eleven plays, each under an hour long. Together with the audience, the fifteen young actors delve deep into the world of Marguerite Duras: the author, who would have had her 111th birthday this year, drilled to ruthless depths on the essence of love and violence with her writings, which include The Lover, The War: A Memoir and Hiroshima mon amour. In Musée Duras, Gosselin transports the existential power of the French writer's texts into the present over the course of one long day. The audience can visit Musée Duras for two or more hours, is free to come and go anytime or, indeed, let the pull of the entire ten-hour performance take hold (with brief intermissions between the pieces). One thing is certain: This museum of love is passionate from start to finish.
The following texts will be shown at Musée Duras in the respective sections - subject to change:
Section 1
L’homme assis dans le couloir (Der Mann im Flur)
Savannah Bay (Savannah Bay)
L’Amant (Der Liebhaber)
Section 2
Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima, mon amour)
La Maladie de la mort (Die Krankheit Tod)
Section 3
Suzanna Andler
Le Théâtre/ L’ Exposition de la peinture (Das Theater / Die Ausstellung der Malerei)
Section 4
La Douleur (Der Schmerz)
L’Amante Anglaise (Die englische Geliebte)
Section 5
La Musica (La Musica)
L’Homme atlantique (Atlantik-Mann)
Direction, Set Design Julien Gosselin Based on Marguerite Duras With Graduates of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique de Paris 2025: Mélodie Adda, Rita Benmannana, Juliette Cahon, Alice Da Luz Gomes, Yanis Doinel, Jules Finn, Violette Grimaud, Atefa Hesari, Jeanne Louis-Calixte, Yoann Thibaut Mathias, Clara Pacini, Louis Pencréac’h, Lucile Rose, Founémoussou Sissoko, Denis Eyriey Dramaturgy Eddy d’Aranjo Video collaboration Pierre Martin-Oriol Music Guillaume Bachelé, Maxence Vandevelde Light Nicolas Joubert Video Raphaël Oriol, Baudouin Rencurel Costumes Valérie Montagu Direction assistance Alice de la Bouillerie Sound direction Julien Feryn Collaboration on the set design Lisetta Buccellato
Production Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur, Odéon - Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris), Conservatoire Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique de Paris With the support of Jeune Théâtre National (Paris) World premiere October 2024, Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique (Paris)
The performances in Vienna are supported by Institut francais d’Autriche.
