Patrice Chéreau

After Ivo van Hove it is now the turn of one of his favourite directors, Patrice Chéreau, to work on a play by Jon Fosse. Chéreau is a theatre- and opera director as well as a film-maker. He is known in the better type of cinema for 'Intimacy' (2001) and 'Son Frère' (2003), both of which received an award at the Film Festival in Berlin. Nevertheless, Chéreau's roots indisputably lie in theatre. At the beginning of the eighties he discovered the young playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès and introduced him to the public. Following his controversial production of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' in Bayreuth, Gerard Mortier brought him to La Monnaie/De Munt with two memorable productions: Koltès' 'Dans la solitude des champs de coton' and Mozart's 'Lucio Silla'. Commissioned by the Louvre and working as coproducer with deSingel, Patrice Chéreau will now direct Jon Fosse's 'Rêve d'Automne'. Together with his permanent set designer Richard Peduzzi, he is making a large-scale production about life, love and death. A man and a woman meet each other once again. In a churchyard. Death settles in, in the place where sexual desire is on the wane. Nevertheless, everyone simply carries on with their everyday routine. A dream in the autumn on the eve of winter.