Fast Forward 2024

_JEANNE_DARK_, that’s the name of 16-year-old Jeanne’s Instagram account, who comes from a Catholic family and lives in a lower middle-class area in a suburb of Orléans. For the last few months, she’s been subjected to malicious jibes about her virginity from her fellow students. One night, alone in her room, she decides she won’t stay quiet any longer: she speaks up and she does it live on Instagram. In front of the mirror, which her smartphone serves as, she tells the story of and invents herself, dances, films, explodes, transforms herself, switching between exposing and performing herself.

This second collaboration between the French theatre maker Marion Siéfert (*1987) and dancer, choreographer and performer Helena de Laurens (*1988) is a show that takes place on stage and on social media at the same time. The idea was developed long before the Corona pandemic and follows the question of how it is possible to extend the theatre into the interactive space of social media. The performance, which premiered on 2nd October 2020 at the Théâtre La Commune in Aubervilliers, provides an impressive answer to this question. For FAST FORWARD AT WORK it was planned to provide the Instagram livestream of the performance from the Theater L'Empreinte, Scène nationale Brive-Tulle with German and English subtitles on www.fastforw.art. As this performance is cancelled due to the current lockdown in France, we are showing instead a recording of the livestream of the performance on 4th October 2020 at Théâtre La Commune in Aubervilliers, with courtesy of the artists and the production.
_JEANNE_DARK_ is the fourth play by director and writer Marion Siéfert, who was a guest at Fast Forward last year with her production DU SALE ! and won the festival jury prize.

The next live performances via Instagram account @_jeanne_dark_ will take place on 18th & 19th November 2020 at 20:30 in an apartment version of the production: The performance will then be played from a chamber of a flat in Aubervilliers.

Die gastgebenden Theater dieser Version sind L'Empreinte - scène nationale Brive-Tulle  - www.sn-lempreinte.fr/ - Théâtre Nouvelle Génération - CDN de Lyon  - www.tng-lyon.fr/ - Théâtre d'Arles - www.theatre-arles.com/ - Théâtre de Liège, Centre Scénique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles  theatredeliege.be/ - am 18. November zeigen wir dem Live-Stream in unserer Videothek noch einmal with deutschen & Englishn Untertietln.

Concept, Direction & Text Marion Siéfert
Aristic Cooperation, Choreography & Performance Helena de Laurens

Artistic Cooperation Matthieu Bareyre / Stage Design Design Nadia Lauro / Light Design Lauriol / Sound Design Johannes Van Bebber / Video Antoine Briot / Baroque Harp Babett Niclas / Costumes Valentine Solé / Make-Up Karin Westerlund / Vocal Training Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias / Technical Direction Chloé Bouju / Video Directing Jérémy Oury / Stage Management Marine Brosse / Developed and Accompanied by Ziferte Productions Cécile Jeanson / Production Ziferte Productions & La Commune, CDN d’Aubervilliers / Coproduction Théâtre Olympia – CDN de Tours, Théâtre National de Bretagne – Rennes, La Rose des vents – Scène Nationale de Villeneuve d’Ascq, Festival d’Automne à Paris, CNDC Angers, L’Empreinte – Scène nationale Brive-Tulle, CDN d’Orléans, Le Tandem – Scène nationale Arras-Douai, Théâtre Nouvelle Génération, CDN de Lyon, Le Maillon – Strasbourg, Kunstencentrum Vooruit-Gand, Théâtre Sorano – Toulouse

With the production support of Porosus, Fonds de dotation et de M.A.C COSMETICS / With the production support of la DRAC Île-de-France / Financed by la Région Île-de-France / Residencies T2g – CDN de Gennevilliers, La Ménagerie de verre dans le cadre du Studiolab / Stage Design produced at Ateliers Nanterre-Amandiers : Marie Maresca, Ivan Assaël, Jérôme Chrétien / © Photo Matthieu Bareyre

Subtitles-Präsentation Panthea / Szenefotos Margaux Vendassi / Deutsche Subtitles Yvonne Griesel / English Subtitles Kate McNaughSound Design

Production of german and english Subtitles with kind support of Institut français and the französischen Ministeriums für Kultur/DGCA