WIP (Work in progress)

Actor, director and writer Pauline Sales asked four young playwrights, Penda Diouf, Vincent Farasse, Pauline Peyrade and Guillaume Poix to write four short, light pieces (15-20 minutes each) for the ten student actors in Year 28 at the École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne, on the theme of the 10th Biennale: shifting work paradigms. These pieces will be rehearsed during the Biennale and performed, together or separately, between 3 and 8 April 2017 at different Biennale venues. They are designed to be played in any setting thanks to an ultra-simple, all-terrain scenographic space. They are meant to be for a general audience, but will appeal particularly to youngsters from age 14 up. Responding to a common writing protocol, they all have an autonomous existence, whilst still resonating with each other. Four episodes in a brief series, after a fashion, that all answer in their own way the multiple questions raised around the issue of work: Why do we work? To earn a living? To accomplish something, for our own satisfaction? To play an active role in society? To change the world? And is work ethic in itself still valid?


Production: Guillaume Poix, Pauline Sales
Texts: Penda Diouf, Vincent Farasse, Pauline Peyrade, Guillaume Poix
With the acting students in Year 28 - Comédie de Saint-Étienne, centre dramatique national: Solène Cizeron, Fabien Coquil, Vinora Epp, Romain Fauroux, Hugo Guittet, Cloé Lastère, Fatou Malsert, Alexandre Paradis, Noémie Pasteger, Flora Souchier
Production: L'École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne - École supérieure d'art dramatique
Co-production: La Comédie de Saint-Étienne - Centre dramatique national / Le Préau - Centre Dramatique de Normandie - Vire as part of the 8th edition of the Festival Ado

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