The Old Man and the Sea is not just a maritime epic, it is a love song, a hymn to the dignity, courage and respect we owe to this shifting horizon, to this nourishing and merciless Mediterranean.
Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, notably for this masterful work, which moved the entire world. The old fisherman's struggle against immensity, against this gigantic fish that embodies both adversity and grandeur, is an almost mystical quest: to defend his life, his livelihood, but also his honor. Yet, beneath the strained muscles and the fatigue of a worn-out body, something quite different is at play: a confrontation with solitude, with the immensity of a sea that gives and takes away, with the pride of a man whose only treasure is his unwavering will.
I want to offer this project to Laurent Prévit. An immense actor who has just joined the TNN Troupe, I dream of digging the furrows of time with him, of sculpting in his gestures the weariness of a life of labor, of exploring in his gaze the tenacity and hope of a man who never gave up. I want, with him, to cry tears of salt water, to feel the bite of the wind and the burn of the sun, to share the vertigo of a man soaring alone towards his destiny.
There is also the child, this young boy who follows him, who admires him and listens to him, this son of the heart, this fragile flame that warms a harsh world. Two generations that are opposites in every way and united in every way, united by the sea, by poverty, by a modest tenderness that speaks volumes.
Nice is a city of light and shores, yet carried by mountain souls, shaped by rock and wind. And the sea, the pond as the old fisherman says, remains a territory to be protected, a treasure we can no longer take for granted. On stage, there will be the puddle, a memory of the tides. There will be the prow of a pointu, broken by the years, a vestige of a life spent fighting against oblivion. There will be a child wandering among the carcasses, and an actor-storyteller, a transmitter of stories and emotions. There will be a sunset of hope, a final gesture of love, and the infinite exhaustion of a man who gave his all. There will be the music of a great soul. And, at the end of the road, an hour of storytelling to enter the heart of a man who, in the face of adversity, found peace.
"The Old Man and the Sea"
by Ernest Hemingway - Translation by Philippe Jaworski - Adaptation by Félicien Juttner
Directed, set design & costumes by Muriel Mayette-Holtz
with Arnaud Pitot & Laurent Prévot
I want to offer this project to Laurent Prévit. An immense actor who has just joined the TNN Troupe, I dream of digging the furrows of time with him, of sculpting in his gestures the weariness of a life of labor, of exploring in his gaze the tenacity and hope of a man who never gave up. I want, with him, to cry tears of salt water, to feel the bite of the wind and the burn of the sun, to share the vertigo of a man soaring alone towards his destiny.
There is also the child, this young boy who follows him, who admires him and listens to him, this son of the heart, this fragile flame that warms a harsh world. Two generations that are opposites in every way and united in every way, united by the sea, by poverty, by a modest tenderness that speaks volumes.
Nice is a city of light and shores, yet carried by mountain souls, shaped by rock and wind. And the sea, the pond as the old fisherman says, remains a territory to be protected, a treasure we can no longer take for granted. On stage, there will be the puddle, a memory of the tides. There will be the prow of a pointu, broken by the years, a vestige of a life spent fighting against oblivion. There will be a child wandering among the carcasses, and an actor-storyteller, a transmitter of stories and emotions. There will be a sunset of hope, a final gesture of love, and the infinite exhaustion of a man who gave his all. There will be the music of a great soul. And, at the end of the road, an hour of storytelling to enter the heart of a man who, in the face of adversity, found peace.
"The Old Man and the Sea"
by Ernest Hemingway - Translation by Philippe Jaworski - Adaptation by Félicien Juttner
Directed, set design & costumes by Muriel Mayette-Holtz
with Arnaud Pitot & Laurent Prévot
