Sur l’architecture théâtrale (Genève, Rennes, Bruxelles, Lascaux)

"Architectural work only makes sense when you're looking for another way of living, another way of operating."

Matthias Langhoff has been one of Europe's most important theater directors since the 1960s. Through memorable performances, loyal companionships (notably with author Heiner Müller and director Manfred Karge), he has never ceased to reinterview his art, its possibilities and adversities.

On various occasions, he has also developed a unique reflection on the architecture of the theatrical building, its ideological presuppositions and its practical consequences on trades and tools.

Matthias Langhoff here brings together three texts on three venues: the former Comédie de Genève theater (in the highly acclaimed Rapport Langhoff); the Théâtre national de Bretagne, whose transformation he proposed; and the new Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, at the time of its inauguration. But his abundant thought, concrete and utopian, learned and provocative, with multiple ramifications, also takes us to Berlin, Venice, Kabul, by way of the Greek coasts, Barcelona's dark districts, Martinique's rum factories and the Lascaux cave.

Matthias Langhoff is a stage director and set designer.