soleil

Liberally inspired by twelve short stories by Raymond Carver, Soleil plunges us into a theater transformed into a labyrinth of stories in twelve stations. Each evening, the audience is separated into small groups, guided through six of the building's twelve fully scenicized spaces: a bedroom, a bar, an Indian drive-in, a moonlit kitchen, a radio set... So many places for so many stories. Between two stages, we stop off at the bar-bingo, the neuralgic and joyfully zany center of this collective experience.

In this kaleidoscopic fresco, directed by Armel Roussel, twenty-one performers bring to life ordinary characters, captured at pivotal moments in their lives. Carver's writing, subtle and cruel, resonates in a choral score full of humor, tenderness and whimsy.

Soleil is a playful, sensitive immersion in our frailties, solitudes and hopes - a mosaic of suspended moments that together form a theater of light.