Philosophical Crossings(2/6)Thursday, November 12th
Why does power need glory ?Public reading and encounter with
Giorgio Agamben and
Martin Rueff.
In The Reign and the Glory, Homo Sacer, II, 2, (Seuil publishers, 2008) Giorgio Agamben continues his genealogy of political power. He discovers the origins of the idea of Economy in the very heart of the Trinitarian tradition, and shows how this paradigm continues to determine our contemporary interpretations of the Political.
But he goes a step further: power is not only a question of government, but also of « glory » : the liturgies, the ceremonies, the acclamations, far from being ancient practices, are the basis of all western power, as the function of consensus and the media prove in our modern democracies. A concept is at the heart of The Reign and the Glory : that of « the lack of anything to do » (désoeuvrement). And since this concept is raised in Nudités, published by Payot-Rivages in September, 2009, we are going to try and bring it onto the stage. The texts that will be read are from Aristotle, St. Augustine, Foucault, Peterson, Schmitt, Tertullien, Thomas of Aquinas.
Born in Rome in 1942,
Giorgio Agamben teaches at the University of Verona. In 1966 and 1968, he attended Heidegger’s seminars. He is in charge of the Italian edition of the Complete Works of Walter Benjamin, for which he discovered a number of important manuscripts. He is the author of a large body of work, of which , Homo sacer I. Sovereign Power and the naked life (1997), Homo sacer, II. État d’exception (2003), have been published by Seuil.
Martin Rueff teaches Literature and Philosophy in Paris and Bologna. He has just published, Difference and Identity. Lyrical Poetry at the peak of cultural capitalism (Hermann, 2009)
Organized with les éditions du Seuil.
In partnership with the Fnac and the Courrier international.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
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Readings from Italian theatrical texts / Closing of the “Face to Face” Cycle.
Face à Face – Words from Italy - For the French stage
Monday, November, 23rd at 6 pm.
Médée and Petite Antigone by Antonio Tarantino
The plays of Antonio Tarantino evoke situations that are intricately linked to contemporary history as much as cultural traditions attached to religion or myth. With Petite Antigone and Médée, in a number of short texts, he brings the female figures from Greek mythology together.
AntonioTarantino, after having been a painter for many years, in 1992 he began a career as writer and subsequently received several prizes for his stage directing in Italy and abroad. His agent in France is L’Arche éditeur.
Readings directed by Bruno Geslin with Frédérique Loliée et Evelyne Didi.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Grande salle / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 3rd. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40
Tuesday, November, 24th at 6 pm
Très belle Marie by Roberto Cavosi
A sensual and mysterious crime story where bodies and passions are weaved together in the camphorated odor of a kick-boxing club and tribal and profane dance steps…Roberto Cavosi was an actor for a dozen years before devoting himself entirely to writing for the theater. He has been awarded numerous awards and prizes.
Reading directed by Alexandra Tobelaïm, with Carlos Martins, Solal Bouloudnine, Thierry Otin and Sandrine Rommel
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 3rd. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40
Wednesday, November, 25th at 6 pm
Cassandre on the road by Lina Prosa
Cassandra, a Greek woman who has emigrated to the United States, is fired by the company she works for. She once again, becomes that foreign nomad that no one is ready to believe. Lina Prosa is a playwright who lives in Palermo where she is artistic director of the Teatro Studio Attrice/Non, and she produces and directs projects concerning disease and sickness and the transformations of the body, and their relation to the stage (Progetto Amazzone).
Reading directed by Christine Letailleur, with Valérie Lang.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 3rd. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40
Thursday, November 26th at 6 pm
Brothers by Francesco Silvestri
In a hospital room, a young patient is sitting on the edge of his bed. His brother enters the room. Off in the distance, church bells ring, announcing mass. But another kind of ceremony is going to take place in the hospital room. Francesco Silvestri is author, actor and director. The author of numerous plays, which he generally directs as well, he also writes fables and plays for children and adolescents. Reading directed by Michel Didym with Christophe Brault (casting in progress).
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 3rd. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40
Friday, November 27th at 6 pm
Goodfriday night followed by excerpts from The Bridge : a collapse by Vitaliano Trevisan
Goodfriday night was inspired by a news item : « A father helps his depressive daughter to commit suicide, then tells the police that he carried it out in order to help her, and the entire family, overcome their misery. » The Bridge : A collapse (Gallimard, 2009). « My land, my language, my culture, none of this has ever been mine, and yet, it is where I come from, and where I am condemned to return. »
Vitaliano Trevisan is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, actor and musician. After spending his youth working in construction, he turned to literature. In France, he has published Bic and other shorts (Verdier Editiors, 2008), The Fifteen thousand steps (Verdier Editor, 2006)
Reading directed by Christian Esnay with Eléonore Briganti and Christian Esnay.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 3rd. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40
Readings organized within the program Face to Face – Words from Italy for the French Stage. Co production ETI, Institut culturel italien de Paris and Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe.
Partnership with France Culture.
Reading by the author
Monday, November 30th at 7 pm
Luc Bondy
A public reading by the author of excerpts from his new novel At my Window. A funny and cynical portrait of our times.
Organized by the editor Christian Bourgois.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 10th. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40
Philosophical Crossings (3/6)
Thursday, December 10th at 6 pm
The courage of telling the truth : a necessary condition to exercising politics ?
With Frédéric Gros for the publication of Michel Foucault’s seminars : Governing oneself and others and The Courage of Truth (Seuil, 2009). Roundtable hosted by Nicolas Truong (a journalist at Le Monde)
In 1983 and 1984, Foucault gave his two last seminars at the Collège de France. He died on June 25th, 1984. These classes were extremely intense and raised the question of courage. But the courage in question, was not that of proving one’s strength in the face of danger, struggle or the adversity of the world. It was the courage necessary when faced with the truth, frankness « telling it like it is ». We all know that in order for ones knowledge to be « true », one must be lucid, have intelligence and method. But why courage ? This is the lesson that Foucault is going to unearth amongst the Ancients.
The texts that will be read are by Foucault, Plato, Epictetus and Diogenes Laerce.
Frédéric Gros is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII. He has worked on the history of psychiatry (Creation and madness, published by PUF), the philosophy of prison sentences (And Justice shall rule, published by Odile Jacob), and Western thought and war (States of Violence, Gallimard). He was the editor of Foucault’s last seminars at the Collège de France.
Organized with the éditions du Seuil.
In partnership with the Fnac and Courrier international.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 19th. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40.
Musical Readings
Musical Readings in the living room.
Tuesday December 15th and Wednesday December 16th at 7 pm
The Story of princesse de Montpensier by Madame de Lafayette
by Marie-Armelle Deguy, accompagnied by Constance Luzzati on the harp.
Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693), friend of Madame de Sévigné, was the author of, amongst other works, The Princesse de Clèves and Zaide.
Thursday December 17th and Friday December 18th at 7 pm
Madame Husson’s Rosebush by Guy de Maupassant
by Michel Fau, accompanied by Nathalie Steinberg on the piano.
A caustic short story by de Maupassant, published in 1887. Just as the author spends several pages painting the portraits of an entire society, Michel Fau, alone on stage, evokes the entire gallery of characters from this miniature, human comedy. When an actor becomes a virtuoso portraitist…
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5 €.
Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, November 24th. Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40.
Encounter
Friday, January 8th at 2 pm
A big get-together with school classes
An encounter around the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Dimitriadis, hosted by Jean-Claude Lallias, with Dimitris Dimitriadis, Daniel Loayza (casting in progress)
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Grande salle
Free admission upon reservation at : 01 44 85 40 33.
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