Edouard Louis

Thomas Ostermeier

Reda se lève et marche d'une extrémité à l'autre de la chambre. Reda tu vas le payer, je vais te buter moi sale pédé, tu m'as insulté de voleur, je vais te faire la gueule pédale. Édouard, voix intérieure voilà pourquoi. Il désire et il déteste son désir. Maintenant il veut se justifier de ce qu'il a fait avec toi. Il veut te faire payer son désir. Il veut se faire croire que ce n'était pas parce qu'il te désirait que vous avez fait tout ce que vous avez fait mais que ce n'était qu'une stratégie pour faire ce qu'il te fait maintenant, que vous n'avez pas fait l'amour mais qu'il te volait déjà. Reda, hurlant sale pédé ! T'es qu'un putain de sale pédé ! Il secoue Édouard. Soudain il se calme. Il l'embrasse. arrête d'avoir peur, je suis sensible, j'aime pas quand les gens ont peur ou quand les gens pleurent. En 2018, Thomas Ostermeier a adapté pour le théâtre le roman d'Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence, avec l'auteur. Au cœur de la violence est le fruit de cette collaboration. Édouard Louis est écrivain. Ses premiers romans ont été traduits dans une trentaine de langues et font l'objet de plusieurs adaptations théâtrales et cinématographiques dans le monde entier.

Au coeur de la violence

Il teatro e la paura

Peter M Boenisch

Thomas Ostermeier is the most internationally recognised German theatre director of the present. With this book, he presents his directorial method for the first time. The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier provides a toolkit for understanding and enacting the strategies of his advanced contemporary approach to staging dramatic texts. In addition, the book includes: Ostermeier’s seminal essays, lectures and manifestos translated into English for the first time. Over 140 photos from the archive of Arno Declair, who has documented Ostermeier’s work at the Schaubühne Berlin for many years, and by others. In-depth ‘casebook’ studies of two of his productions: Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (2012) and Shakespeare’s Richard III (2015) Contributions from Ostermeier’s actors and his closest collaborators to show how his principles are put into practice. An extraordinary, richly illustrated insight into Ostermeier’s working methods, this volume will be of interest to practitioners and scholars of contemporary European theatre alike.

The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier

Gerhard Jörder

Thomas Ostermeier is one of the best-known European theatre makers and is regarded by many as "the face of modern German theatre" (DIE ZEIT). His major Ibsen productions and his "Hamlet", starring Lars Eidinger tour the globe; Berlin's Schaubühne, where he has been the artistic head since 1999, is celebrated worldwide. In conversation with Gerhard Jörder, Thomas Ostermeier describes the path that led him to the theatre, which became "a kind of life saver" after early years riddled by conflict. Self-confident and self-critical, both declarative and ruminative, he recapitulates the early triumphs of the Deutsches Theater's Baracke offshoot, his difficult start at the Schaubühne and the growing success of his politically engaged realistic theatre, particularly among young audiences. He emerges as an outspoken critic of his generation's apolitical attitude, the postmodern mainstream and the narrow aesthetic discourse of German theatre, and a passionate supporter of the permanent institutions of culture, the ensemble concept and creative work with actors – the core of an understanding of contemporary theatre that focuses on people rather than forms.

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