Architecture

"Hope knows no future, and fortunately..."
For Architecture, twentieth-century Europe, traumatized by wars and nationalism, serves as the backdrop for this fresco written in the bodies and voices of exceptional actors. Gathered together for the first time on the same stage, they embody the members of a family of artists, philosophers and composers who will not be able to avoid the shipwreck of their world. Their thinking seems petrified by what they foresee for the future. Even in the face of imminent horror, they cannot unite to change the course of time. Author and director Pascal Rambert wonders: "If they couldn't prevent bloodshed, how can we do so in a time like ours, when we are collectively so poorly armed?" His heroes, meanwhile, are tearing themselves apart - as is often the case in the playwright's plays, sculpted with the force of a highly physical language - and know neither how to flee nor fight, "gripped by fear."