The Wind in the bag
A piece by Josef Nadj for 8 performers in tribute to Samuel Beckett
Choregraphy
Josef Nadj
Performers
Istvan Bickei, Denes Debrei, Peter Gemza, Laurence Levasseur, Josef Nadj, Gyork Szakonyi, Henrietta Varga, Valéry Volf
Music
Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer
Lights
Rémi Nicolas
assisted by Xavier Lazarini
Scenography
Goury
Costumes
Bjanka Ursulov
assisted by Lori Chardonnet
Coproduction
Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne ETE, Théâtre de la Ville -Paris, Les Gémeaux Scène Nationale – Sceaux
Supports
Carré Saint-Vincent-Scène Nationale d’Orléans
Creation
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, 2 december 1997
Prize
1st price of public and the criticism for the stage setting to the International Festival of Theater of Sarajevo “Mess” (1998).
Duration
1h25
“And yet I have high hopes, I give you my word, that one day I may tell a story, hear a story, yet another, with men, kinds of men as in the days when I played all regardless or nearly, worked and played. But first stop talking and get on with your weeping, with eyes wide open that the precious liquid may spill freely, without burning the lids, or the crystalline humour, I forget, whatever it is it burns. Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren’t so easy, the true tone and tenor at last. Besides, not a tear, not one, I’d be in greater danger of mirth, if it wasn’t so easy. No, grave, I’ll be grave, I’ll close my ears, close my mouth, and be grave. And when they open again, it may be to hear a story, tell a story, in the true sense of the words, the word hear, the word tell, the word story, I have high hopes, a little story, with living creatures coming and going on a habitable earth crammed with the dead, a brief story, with night and day coming and going above, if they stretch that far, the words that remain, and I’ve high hopes, I give you my word.”
Samuel Beckett, Stories and Texts for Nothing
History :
26-27 avril 2000
Scène nationale de Poitiers
Poitiers (FR)
7 mai 1999
Théâtre de l’Olivier
Istres (FR)
16 mars 1999
L’Espal
Le Mans (FR)
5 mars 1999
Théâtre Granit
Belfort (FR)
27 février 1999
Théâtre Feuillant
Dijon (FR)
11 décembre 1998
Le Fanal
Saint-Nazaire (FR)
23 octobre 1998
Festival Mess National Theatre Sarajevo
Sarajevo (CZ)
15-16 août 1998
Milenium Festival
Saint Jacques de Compostelle (ES)
10-12 août 1998
Theatro Nacionale D. Maria
Lisbonne (PT)
20-24 mai 1998
Théâtre Vidy
Lausanne (CH)
9 mai 1998
Teatro Victoria Eugenia
San Sebastian (ES)
24 avril 1998
L’Athanor Scène nationale d’Albi
Albi (FR)
21-22 avril 1998
Théâtre Garonne
Toulouse (FR)
9-10 avril 1998
Montpellier Danse Opéra Comédie
Montpellier (FR)
2 avril 1998
Halle aux Grains
Blois (FR)
25-29 mars 1998
Les Gémeaux
Sceaux (FR)
19-20 mars 1998
Le Cargo
Grenoble (FR)
24 février – 14 mars 1998
Théâtre les Abbesses
Paris (FR)
14-23 janvier 1998
Scène nationale d’Orléans
Orléans (FR)
2-21 décembre 1997
Théâtre Vidy
Lausanne (CH)
