L'avantage du doute

PERFORMANCE IN FRENCH

text Bertolt Brecht among others
a performance by and with Simon Bahkouche, Mélanie Bestel, Judith Davis, Claire Dumas, Minke Kruyver, Nadir Legrand, Tiago Rodrigues, Kajsa Sandström, Frank Vercruyssen and Cathy Verney

set, lighting and costumes tg STAN

production tg STAN
coproduction Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris) and Festival d'Automne (Paris)

premiere 21 November 2005, Théâtre de la Bastille/Festival d'Automne, Paris

During STAN's occupation of the Parisian Théâtre de la Bastille at the end of 2005, Frank Vercruyssen invited 9 people to create a new production in collaboration with him. He met these performers during a workshop in Toulouse (July 2003), and while teaching at the dance school PARTS or at the drama school Studio Herman Teirlinck.

Frank Vercruyssen:
"A performance by STAN usually starts with a text, but not this time. There's a female former PARTS student who spent her childhood on a small island in Sweden and who's always cold, and a girl from Haarlem in the Netherlands, who graduates this year from Studio Herman Teirlinck, and a fifty-five-year-old charming former clown who did a scene from Les Dépits Amoureux with a skinny actress who also teaches toddlers, and a female philosopher who constantly trips over her own feet, and a man from Paris with a strange hairstyle who also loves to direct videos, and a female energy blast from Lyon, and a Parisian ballerina who, afterwards, attended drama school in Toulouse and whenever she tells a story everyone rolls around on the floor laughing, and of course that fantastic Portuguese man we already met earlier, and we are there, too."