Show Fables
Free admission - Open to all
Great Hall
A jewel of French literature, La Fontaine's Fables still speak to us, in a language that is chiseled, subtle and vibrant with humor. Show presented and offered to secondary I and II classes.
The Fables of La Fontaine are among the jewels of French literature. Able in a few strokes to carve situations, landscapes and people, they express the balance between rigor and freedom, precision and lightness: the mastery of the master! The language is at the same time sculpted, sharp and vibrant with humor, it jumps and metamorphoses, taking multiple forms as in the time when the animals spoke...
Light or serious things, small flaws or great failings, blows of destiny or broken pots, each fable has the art to make vibrate in the sounds and the words the shimmering of the human psyche - and
the difficulty of being man is transformed into animalery of the soul. The animals are witnesses of it!
Punctuated by music by Rameau and Bartók (and a few detours by Bach, and Schubert and the fables of La Fontaine play on all fronts of gaiety: ruffling wings,
This flood of fables draws the listener in, hooks him, pierces him, feathers him, pulls his sleeping animals out of his body, makes him laugh under his breath or out loud, to make him love life even more!
Marc-Alexandre Cousquer, actor and director
He was trained at the Studio Théâtre Jean-Louis Martin Barbaz in Paris (1996-1999), at the Mikhael Chekhov Studio in Berlin (1999-2000) and at the School for the Art of the Word at the Goetheanum in Basel (2001-2004, Switzerland), where he took courses with Wolfgang Greiner. He has taken courses with Ariane Mnouchkine, Carlo Boso, Michael Blume, Beatrice Albrecht... He works with various directors such as Jean-Louis Martin Barbaz, Arnold Sandhaus, ... He directed Les Choéphores by Aeschylus, Les Cavaliers by Aristophanes (Goetheanum), Askelaad et les 3 compagnons with the Cie Sur-Salt and within the company he created Le Théâtre de l'Homme Inconnu, he staged Le Soldat fanfaron by Plautus, Le Misanthrope by Molière, Le Serpent Vert by Goethe, La Fin de Satan by V.Hugo, The King's Son by Padraic Colum (in German), Shakespeare's Twelfth Night... In parallel to his activity as an actor and director, he teaches theater, poetry and the art of the voice
in various institutions, and leads numerous workshops.
Lise Lienhard, pianist
Trained in Reims, Strasbourg and Toulouse at the Conservatories of Music, in piano and harpsichord, she obtained a Prize of Excellence in chamber music - class of Pierre Penassou in Reims, graduated unanimously from the Superior degree of piano - class of Hélène Boschi in Strasbourg, graduated in harpsichord - class of Jan Willem Jansen in Toulouse. The exchanges that followed with other musicians such as Carmen Bravo Mompou, Leon Fleisher and Llyr William, Urmas Sisask, confirmed her love of the piano and forged her musical commitment.
An artist "with a fine and subtle style" (René Gouzenne, Cave Poésie de Toulouse), she alternates between accompanying and playing solo.
