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THE EVENT
Thursday
theater
figures
David Black is black
Young author, director and actor, David Noir leads his company La vie est courte through the drifts of the Puritans. Eight men and one woman get involved in all the nuances and foibles of nudity.
A shocking show against chic prejudices in a daring flesh theatre.
Head [of Poster]
David Noir, dynamiter of theatrical decorum
And I will piss on your boards...
The Puritans by David Noir
He grew up between Neuilly and Draguignan, in the comfort of a bourgeois family living on its income, on the cotton wool of a "Mowglie childhood". As a teenager, encouraged to Darwinism by a literary father and a jem'enfoutiste mother, he studied palaeontology, entered Jussieu, Nanterre, then Saint-Denis, and studied architecture and cinema. He became angry with Serge Daney, who despised the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Crazy about Bowie and Garbo, he was 20 years old when he set up his company, Le Bestiaire. He adapted The Monk by Mathew G. Lewis, stages a part ofHenry VI of Shakespeare and is lynched by Libé when he shows off his Worm in the fruithis first musical. Draughtsman, video artist, author, director and actor, David Noir, 37 years old, persists and signs The PuritansA traumatic object, a manifesto and an undeniable dramatic jewel. Nine actors, prodigies of a new anti-theatre, devastate all the theatrical decorum. It is enough to make the hard-hitting theatre of the German Albert Ostermaïer look like ultralight flan. Under the guise of a murderous primer, Noir declines, disinhibits, exposes and overcomes all our vaguely repressed tendencies towards puritanism.
