{"id":46669,"date":"2022-03-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=46669"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:10:25","slug":"un-sacre-a-piece-that-accompanies-mourning-and-honors-our-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/performing-arts\/theater\/un-sacre-a-piece-that-accompanies-mourning-and-honors-our-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abUn Sacre\u00bb: a play that accompanies mourning and honors our dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unpublished article - Chlo\u00e9 Delassis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 2015 by the young and promising Lorraine de Sagazan, the La Br\u00e8che company presents a mind-shaking show on France's major theater stages. Un Sacre<\/em>, is the interweaving of several true accounts of the deaths of loved ones, touching us either by their similarity to our own experiences, or by the richness of their emotion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Over the course of a year, the company went out to meet 365 people. When asked \u00abWhat resonance does the word \u201creparation\u201d have in your life?\u00bb, the recurring theme was death. Bringing to the stage the grief of nine of these people who have not had the opportunity to mourn their dead, Lorraine de Sagazan also lends a ritual dimension to this performance, which she calls a \u00abceremony\u00bb. The fire, the dances, the gestures and the costumes evoke various funerary customs whose meaning intelligibly reaches us, despite their exoticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On stage, Jeanne Favre, Andr\u00e9a El Azan, Antonin Meyer-Esquerr\u00e9, Benjamin Tholozan and others each assume the role of one of these interlocutors, appropriating their testimony through their words, but also expressing this tribute through their bodies. Directed by Sylv\u00e8re Lamotte, they paint a series of choreographic tableaux, each with its own ceremonial aspect, sometimes solemn, sometimes more exuberant. Letting go of the need to save energy, their movements act as a kind of catharsis - an emotional purgation - for the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Sharing the tears<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If the background of the show Un Sacre <\/em>takes on a certain tradition (the tradition of the Corsican mourners, for example), its form is open to a genuine exchange, verbal or emotional, with the audience. Over and above several interactions with the audience, which are rather comic in tone and contrast with the dramatic weight of the subject matter, the atmosphere is dense and liberating: we return to the roots of ancient dramatic art, where sharing tears was no less common than sharing laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n