Now it is the turn of Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon to work with eight young performers as part of the Talents Adami Théâtre scheme, hosted for the tenth year running at the Atelier de Paris. With their habitual brand of humour, they dissect beliefs and representations linked to death, rituals and funeral-related practices.


In their “Rituels” series, they work together, using the real as the basis for their theatrical investigations, to create shows and films that explore the utilisation and rules of symbolic events in our society. For "Ritual 5: Death," they meet with death specialists: a consultant in eco-friendly funerals, a vertical cemetery architect, a corpse makeup artist, a provider of QR codes for tombstones, a creator of post-mortem emails …

In the company of the young actors and actresses, they share the methodology of their writing, based on collection and collage. Onstage, this documentary material is reinterpreted and reworked in successive layers, thereby going beyond the framework of the real in order to create interplay with the codes of genre-based cinema. Theatre and film coexist in order to create interference between onstage and filmic presence, recreated life and documented life, the dead and the living-dead.

Design, text, and staging, Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon
With (alternating) Garance Bonotto, Aymen Bouchou, Barbara Chanut, Anaïs Gournay, Manon Hugny, Damoh Ikheteah, Nan Yadji Ka-Gara, Anthony Martine, Tom Pezier, Arthur Rémi, Ophélie Ségala
Dramaturgy consultant, Marine Prunier
Lighting, Romain de Lagarde
Cinematographer, Alexandra de Saint Blanquat
SFX Makeup, Amanda Silaen
Video editing, Carole Borne
Music, Émile Sornin
Sound and video, Romain Vuillet and Cristian Sotomayor
General manager, Jérémie Sananes
Director's intern, Elina Martinez
Administration and production, Les Indépendances, Colin Pitrat and Hélène Moulin

Produced by John Corporation
Co-produced by Adami; Festival d’Automne à Paris

In the framework of the Talents Adami Théâtre program
In collaboration with Atelier de Paris CDCN

Residency hosted by Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise; Le lieu unique (Nantes); Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre

John Corporation is subsided by the Ministry of Culture – Drac Île-de-France and the Région Île-de-France

Premiere on October the 4th of 2022 at l'Atelier de Paris CDCN as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris

Photographies
@Romy Alizée