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12 May 2003
FESTIVAL
THE THEATRE TAKES OFF ITS CLOTHES
What's new in the theatre? With the Avignon Festival in the process of being patently memorialized, the answer could come from Rouen. After all, there is also a river and bridges in the Normandy capital. And there is a strong interest in live performance. The proof is in the form of the second edition of "Corps de textes", an ambitious gathering devoted to the discovery of living authors, French and foreign, playwrights but also researchers. With performances, meetings, salons with commented readings, those who are passionate about theatrical writing, its forms, its issues, its future and its geography will not know where to turn. The most rascally of us will perhaps choose the "limits" section, forbidden to children, which on 16 and 23 May will examine the boundaries of what can be represented on stage - literally: obscenity. The programme is not only sulphurous, but rather prestigious, with texts by Michel Foucault and the poet Pierre Guyotat, an adaptation of "La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M.", and, as a guest star of the night, Xaviera Hollander. 1/ Twenty years ago, this shy Dutchwoman caused a scandal with some very ole confidences. Today, she devotes herself to the theatre and tells the story of her childhood. Shamelessness leads to everything. And curiosity, in Seine-Maritime.
G.V.
