ARCHIVES 2010 / Laurent Sauvage n'est pas une Walkyrie

"I am looking for an actor who can be the narrator of a cultural epic unprecedented in the history of Europe. The epic of a man as illustrious as Jesus or Napoleon: the composer Richard Wagner. This actor's name is Laurent Sauvage according to his birth certificate. I don't want him to give a poetic recital or a dramatic reading. I want to put him on stage so that he combines sang-froid and humour in a hieratical posture. I want his role to consist in placing his body in a text that I wrote specially for him, dealing with the limit of rock-inspired mass culture. The electrified body, the amplified body, the exaggerated body but also the virile body of the masculine type whose voice conjures up the spirit of Wagner, evokes his love life with his wife Cosima and creates, live, a Valkyrie."