ARCHIVES 2012 / A Young Man Is Killed

The starting point of Christophe Honoré's play, a country road, a summer's night. A flipped-over car, just after an accident, a moment of silence and smoke. And to enliven this image-action, bodies of provincial youth that struggle, fight against boredom, ghosts, predetermined destines. Bodies at war but a private war. A Young Man Is Killed makes reference to performance forms of our time, that is, cinema, but also fragmented narratives in literature, contemporary theatre, performance, dance, and all these while preserving the fable and history. Christophe Honoré wrote A Young Man Is Killed for Robert Cantarella to have the third-year students deal with the creation of a text. For this initiatory test, they will have to take on a universe, a fiction and an incarnation that will permit them to enter professional life.

Directed by Arnaud Meunier, the École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne is the oldest school in a national dramatic centre. With the purpose of training interpreters, it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in September 2012.