Étincelles

Nobel Prize for Literature 2023, Jon Fosse is staged for the first time at the Comédie-Française. In the work of this immense Norwegian author, Gabriel Dufay - one of his translators and directors in France - creates a montage composed of four short plays, previously unpublished, and some of his texts and poems.

Under the title Étincelles - those "little sparks of eternity" that we sometimes miraculously feel in the theater or in life - he presents these scores, rarities of timeless writing capable of illuminating our present.
Besides the dialogue of a man and a woman, gazing up at a mountain top, close to the sky, we discover more urban pieces in which time is the main character. The plot is fragmented, with the action taking place at pivotal moments: a woman in search of freedom wants to reconnect with the man she left behind; a man moves away from home, certain of his passion for a young woman, but not sure she'll join him; a man in search of the invisible and the secret. It's up to the audience to investigate inside these shards of life, which we don't know if they take place at the time of the events, years later, or in the stretched time of our shattered existences.