l'avenir
Hier c'était mieux demain
Stricken by the pain of living, individuals end up within the walls of an ageing institution: L'Avenir. This place welcomes the weary, the unhappy, the depressed, all those who have at some point stopped in their tracks and dreamed of disappearing for a while. There, between two cups of coffee served by an ageless steward, they practise keeping up with the world, keeping pace, integrating the rules of successful sociability. In this place at the end of its tether, this fragile community of lonely souls will try to relearn the art of living. Trained to become the actors of their own lives, to play their part in a society that exhausts them, they are plagued by doubt: play the game, yes, but why?
After HOME - Morceaux de nature en ruine and Toutes les villes détruites se ressemblent, the Nature II company, under the impulse of Magrit Coulon, presents the final instalment of its trilogy of commonplaces. Between secret polyphony and the choreography of tired bodies, L'avenir continues the search for a theatre of the ordinary: a writing of bodies and details, of time that passes and does not pass, an attention paid to everyday life, both funny and sad at the same time.
How can one live and not be alone?
Is there any coffee left?
And why have the volcanoes fallen asleep?
Nominated for the 2025 Maeterlinck Critics' Award in the category of best writing
Jeu Raphaëlle Corbisier, Emmanuelle Gilles-Rousseau, Marianne Hansé, Romain Pigneul, Jules Puibaraud, Claire Rappin
Écriture Bogdan Kikena, Magrit Coulon et collective
Mise en scène Magrit Coulon
Dramaturgie Bogdan Kikena
Chant polyphonique, collaboration à la direction de jeu et écriture Lucile Charnier
Assistanat à la mise en scène Anne Prea
Scénographie Justine Bougerol
Costumes Solène Valentin
Son Olmo Missaglia
Lumière Manon Vergotte
Regard extérieur Stéphane Olivier
Collaboration au travail physique Natacha Nicora
Régisseur général Pierre Ottinger
Technique Corentin Christiaens, David Defour, Arthur Demaret, Stéphanie Denoiseaux, Jeison Pardo Rojas
Construction décor et confection costumes
Ateliers du Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Un spectacle de Nature II
Production Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Coproduction Théâtre de Liège, Comédie de Genève, maison de la culture de Tournai/maison de création, Théâtre de Lorient, MC93 - Scène nationale de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny, Théâtre Antoine Vitez - Scène d’Ivry, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod
Avec l’aide de La Fédération Wallonie- Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Direction du Théâtre
Avec le soutien du CENTQUATRE-Paris, Centre Culturel d’Uccle, MoDul, La Bellone, Le Corridor, le Bocal, et de Taxshelter.be, ING et du Taxshelter du gouvernement fédéral belge
