On stage, 5 chairs, 5 different women and a common story.
5 voices, 5 lives and 5 opinions which invent a story with the music, a story without a beginning or an end. They dream the world, laugh at their misfortunes, share secrets and cook…
Sometimes accomplices, other times adversaries, the women, in between fear and irony, lead us with their voices into an imaginary sound and movement universe, filled with laughter, grotesque, possible and impossible situations.
5 women, 1 dancer, 2 singers, 2 actresses, 7 images, 7 bits of life, 5 chairs, 17 a capella songs, 85 scores, 2 diapasons and 1 secret; 1 month and a half of rehearsals, 30 services, 30 shared meals, 60 pauses, 300 bottles of mineral water and some kilos of dried fruit.
Casting
Brigitte Cirla – soprano
Katy Deville – mezzo-soprano
Joëlle Driguez – mezzo-soprano
Isabelle Guien – contralto
Marielle Haurant – soprano
Staging/ Brigitte Cirla
Friend help/ Christian Carrignon
Light/ Raphaël Verley
Sound/ Dominique Clément
Mise en scène
A capella voices show a unique feeling and purity; the strength and fragility of that which is alive. The thread of the story is given by the traditional Hungarian polyphonic songs re-composed by Béla Bartok, Zoltàn Kodàly and György Ligeti.
Music is for me a stronger and more evoking language than words. Reading these scores for the first time, I was fascinated by the shock produced by the meeting between the contemporary and traditional music, and by the distances: I wanted to explore the distance between sound and text, sound and movement, text and music, music and movement.
I search the imaginary and visual space of a music piece starting from a score of movement dynamics and I work with movement as a sequence of notes with a timing, colouring, rhythm and accent. If I miss music, I miss theatre
Musics and texts
Béla Bartok
Ne hagyj itt ! Don’t leave me here
Jószágigézó – Call
Játék – children song
Leánynézó – Courting
Héjja, héjja Karahéjja – Marchandage
Van egy gyürüm, karika – I have a ring
Zoltán Kodály
Gólya-Nóta – Berceuse le chant des cigognes
Cigánysirató – lamentation tzigane
György Ligeti
Harom Hordo – Chanson à boire : 3 tonneaux
Pletykázó asszonyok – Les commères
Siralmas nékem – Lamentation
Egy fekete holló – Un corbeau noir
Vissza ne nézz – Ne regarde pas en arrière
Fujdogál a nyári szél – Le vent d’été souffle doucement
1 bulgarian traditionnal song
Malka Stiroda – Chant de moisson
2 georgian traditionnal song
Dzlier Stiroda – Chant de deuil
Shen Bicho Anagurelo – Fils d’Anaguri
Helen Chadwick
Hold on – Reste
