Jennifer Bonn

UTZGUR

Company Belgo-Suisse (CH)
text by Mathieu Bertholet

with/by :
Yves Adam, Mathieu Bertholet, Georges Bertrand, Jennifer Bonn, Vincent Bonillo, Roberto Garieri, Thibault Genton, Frédéric Jacot-Guillarmod, Colin Legras, Frédéric Lombard, Marc Mayoraz, Roberto Molo, Serge Perret, Julien Schmutz, Anna Van Brée, Thibault Vancraenenbroeck

If theatre once portrayed an abundance of heros, it seems that today, these stories of gods and men are history. Having noted this fact, Anna Van Bree questions the notion of heroism and assembles a strong team around two distinct objects : a film Tout est vert directed by Frédéric Lombard, and a play, developed around the commissioned text "Heroes" by Mathieu Bertholet.

"There are no heros left today. There are no heros left today?
Have they disappeared? Do we not see them anymore? Do we not want to see them anymore? Do we stifle them? Hide them? Eat them?
A hero is not a guy from Neuchâtel on a French tv show, not a guy from Basel on a Parisian tennis court.
A hero rises. Rises above. Breaks." (Mathieu Bertholet)

Six actors, all men, speak the voices, individual or in chorus, of Mathieu Bertholet: terrorists, Greek heros, a maniac in a Swiss city... Together, these voices put the tragic hero into perspective, through our society's views, and question the violence inherent in heroic attempts.

Founded in 2002 by Anna Van Bree, the Company La Belgo-Suisse is a platform for reflection on contemporary theatre, on performance and on the possibilities of political theatre. After two projects around Rainald Goetz (Heiliger Krieg in 2004 and Jeff Koons in 2005), the company proposes Utzgur!, a third creation which takes the form of a diptyque.

coproduction (2006) : Cie Belgo-Suisse, Théâtre du Grütli (Geneva)
support : Fondation Sophie & Karl Binding, Loterie Romande (Organes vaudois et genevois de répartition), Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture, Département de l'instruction publique de l'État de Genève.



Tout est vert