LOVE

text and direction Alexander Zeldin
associate artist
rerun
with the Festival d'Automne à Paris

in English, with French surtitles

duration 1h30

15 – 22 October 2022

La Commune – Aubervilliers

with Amelda Brown, Naby Dakhli, Amelia Finnegan, Oliver Finnegan, Sandy Grierson, Joel MacCormack, Hind Swareldahab, Temi Wilkey, Grace Willoughby

LOVE returns after its great success at the Ateliers Berthier in 2018. Set in temporary social accommodation in Great Britain, the play shows very different people brought together by the vagaries of life and forced to spend time together. Thanks to his thorough work with the actors, Alexander Zeldin makes this small, unstable and emotional community both comic and tragic. A little girl rehearses her Christmas song. A son washes his mother's hair in a sink. A family shares breakfast as if the others did not exist. Amid the tensions and despondency, love sometimes springs up as the most constant fuel of life.

duration 1h30

Tuesday to Thursday at 7.30 pm, Friday at 8.30 pm, Saturday at 6 pm, Sunday at 3 pm
no show on Monday

Off-site performance

in English, with French surtitles

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• Programme de salle LOVE

stage design Natasha Jenkins
light Marc Williams
sound Josh Anio Grigg
costumes Natasha Jenkins
collaborator Caroline McCall
movement work Marcin Rudy
assistant director Elin Schofield

production A Zeldin Company

coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe

production originale National Theatre of Great Britain

coproduction originale Birmingham Repertory Theatre

in corealisation with the Festival d’Automne à Paris and La Commune – centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers

with the support of the city of Aubervilliers

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Alexander Zeldin, born in 1985, is an internationally acclaimed British author and director. His theatrical career began with workshops and performances in a wide range of countries - Egypt, South Korea, Russia, Georgia, Italy - with people from all walks of life. He is also an assistant to Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. In 2014, he made a name for himself in the UK with Beyond Caring, presented at the National Theatre in London in 2015, and recreated in German at the Schaubühne in 2022, which tells the story of night workers in an industrial butchery. This show is the first of a trilogy, 'The Inequalities', of which the next two plays, Love and Faith, Hope and Charity were presented at the Ateliers Berthier in 2018 and 2021. In January 2022, he also created Une mort dans la famille, his first show in French, which will be revived in the 2022-23 season.

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