Claude Régy & Les Ateliers Contemporains
Rêve et folie
"The ultimate, crazy, radical, splendid performance from the great Claude Régy." La Libre Belgique 23 May 2017
He may be 96, but the French director Claude Régy is still a radical thinker who plays a vanguard role in the European theatre landscape. For ‘Rêve et Folie’ he drew his inspiration from the life and poetry of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. During the First World War, Trakl was working as a soldier pharmacist at the front, when, aged just 27, miserable and mentally ill, he died from a cocaine overdose. His literary oeuvre is expressionistic, charged and tormented; his language musical and violent. With this long poem by Trakl, Régy once again probes mankind’s dark side. The actor Yann Boudaud appears out of a black emptiness through a subtle play of phenomenal light. He transports you to a vast area of intense and elusive beauty.