ARCHIVES 2010 / Écrits rock

For more than three years, the actor Pierre Baux and the cellist Vincent Courtois have gotten together to tell, on two crossed registers, tales and stories. This time, they have chosen to let the spectators hear New York rock from the 1970s, making it come alive again through dialogues, memories, dreams and digressions recounted by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain in their book Please Kill Me, The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Jim Morrison, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Sid Vicious, Billy Murcia, David Bowie and the groupie Sable Star, by order of appearance, haunt the stage filled with speakers and loudspeakers, an oral memory of a legendary moment that is poetically incarnated by the evocative acting of Pierre Baux and the surprising chords of Vincent Courtois. ADB