2009-2010 Season

La Pièce Entre la Langue et L'Identité

A staged reading
With local actors and members of Atlanta's Francophone communities

Clarkston Community Center: Monday, March 29, 2010 - 7:00pm
3701 College Avenue, Clarkston, GA, 30021
Tel: 404.508.1050
Entrance for donations at the door

Imperial Fez restaurant: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 6:30pm
Drinks and Tapas start 6:30pm, performance 7:30pm - stay for dinner and make it a night out!
Tickets $30 at the door

Théàtre du Rêve is delighted to celebrate Francophonie Month this March with all of Atlanta! We will perform a staged reading of texts gathered from all over the French-speaking world, exploring the interplay between language and identity. Music, dance and drumming will round out two evenings of works from Haiti, Martinique, Africa, Viet Nam, Quebec, Louisiana and other points on the globe. This will be a truly international experience! Texts will be read by actors and members of Atlanta's Francophone communities!

For more information: 404.875.3829

L'Acteur Sacrifiant

Adapted and directed by Valéry Warnotte
Dramaturgy by Amin Erfani
With Chris Kayser, Park Krausen, Eliana Marianes, Grégory Montel and drummer Fred Lamarre

Performing Arts Studio, Emory University: January 15-24, 2010
8:00pm Fridays and Saturdays, 3:00pm Sundays
Pay-what-you-can Preview: Thursday, January 14 at 9:00pm - *Note time change*

Wit, subversion, a challenge to the theatre-going experience as we know it -- French-Swiss playwright Valère Novarina's works come to life with irreverence and exploration in this new creation from Théâtre du Rêve and Compagnie L'Intervention in Paris. Théâtre du Rêve is collaborating with Emory University to bring the work of Valère Novarina to Atlanta this season. Novarina is one of the most important visionaries and one of the most interesting authors in contemporary French theatre. He is often produced at the international Avignon Festival, and we are happy to be one of the first companies to bring him to the U.S. We have commissioned new translations of his work into English (by Amin Erfani of Emory); Warnotte adapts excerpts from this living playwright's dramatic and theoretical works into a dynamic, funny, challenging and experiential piece. Novarina questions the core of theatre and asks the audience to "come back into the theater" and throw out our preconceptions. He seeks to invent a new theatrical language that is closer to our own heartbeats and hits our funny bones, that tickles us in places we didn't know we were ticklish!

Made possible in part by grants from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

L'Acteur Sacrifiant will tour to Washington, DC, April 12-14, 2010. US tour facilitated by the Alliance Française USA, April 1-15, 2010: for more details and booking information, visit the site of the Délégation Générale.

Developed partly in workshop with Novarina and the Emory University Department of French and Italian in February 2009, as well as at the Festival des Francophonies en Limousin in September 2009.

Vive La Fontaine!

Directed by Ariel de Man
With Carolyn Cook, Adam Fristoe, Park Krausen and J.C. Long

Horizon Theater: October 16-25, 2009
1083 Austin Ave, Atlanta, GA

Our Suzi Award-winning show is back by overwhelming demand! Based on the fables of Jean de La Fontaine, featuring such favorites as the Tortoise and the Hare. The fables are told with music, dance, puppetry, acrobatics and much more! The performance is in French, but ne vous inquiétez pas, you don't need to speak a word of French to enjoy the stories and fun in this hypervisual play!