THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Sunday, September 15 at 7:30 pm
Castle courtyard
The Possibility of an Island is the story of a comedian, Daniel. In the 2010’s, he became a millionaire by writing vulgar and politically incorrect shows, somewhere between Dieudonné and Bigard. One evening, he falls in love with Isabelle, editor-in-chief of Lolita magazine. She
is thirty-seven years old, he’s thirty-nine. They married and then retired to a huge property in Andalusia. The years go by and their love does not survive. Towards the end of his life, Daniel met Esther. From the very first moments of this encounter, he understood that he would experience total happiness with her and that the loss of that happiness would kill him.
Adapted and directed by Léo Cohen-Paperman
Bookings on 02 53 20 32 99 or on the online ticket office
Rate of your choice:
5€, 10€ or 15€. In an ideal of cultural democratization, the NTP has been offering a single rate of €5 per place since 2009.
Aujourd´hui, to preserve the festival, the NTP proposes a new pricing system where everyone can choose the price of their place without having to justify their situation.
The New Popular Theatre
Le Nouveau Théâtre Populaire is a collective, which created in 2009, an open-air theatre festival in Fontaine-Guérin (49). The festival is growing, until it alternates between six shows per edition. It takes place every summer in August.
The company has also grown over the years. Today, it has twenty members: Pauline Bolcatto, Valentin Boraud, Julien Campani, Philippe Canalès, Baptiste Chabauty, Léo Cohen-Paperman, Thomas Chrétien, Emilien Diard-Detœuf, Clovis Fouin, Frédéric Jessua, Joseph Fourez, Sophie Guibard, Elsa Grzeszczak, Lazare Herson- Macarel, Lola Lucas, Morgane Nairaud, Antoine Philippot, Julien Romelard, Claire Sermonne and Sacha Todorov.
The troupe operates democratically, all decisions are made collectively, but each show has a director who retains his or her artistic uniqueness. Without wishing to assert dogma, the New Popular Theatre recognizes itself in Jean Vilar’s values: great texts, low prices, decentralization.
The festival has already featured Andersen, Brecht, Büchner, Claudel, Corneille, Feydeau, Fosse, Hugo, Maeterlinck, Molière, Novarina, Perrault, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Singer, Sophocles, Tchekhov, Winsor Mc Cay and two collective creations on the 5th Republic and the 1st World War.
Subsidized by the Entente-Vallée (Beaufort-en-Anjou, Les Bois d’Anjou, Mazé-Milon, La Ménitré), the Ministère de la Culture-drac Pays-de-la- Loire and the Région Pays-de-la-Loire. With the support of the Théâtre National Populaire, the Quai-CDN d’Angers, and the communes of Beaufort-en-Anjou, Loire-Authion, Baugé-en-Anjou.
Subventionné par l’Entente-Vallée (Beaufort-en-Anjou, Les Bois d’Anjou, Mazé-Milon, La Ménitré), le Ministère de la Culture-drac Pays-de-la- Loire et la Région Pays-de-la-Loire. Avec le soutien du Théâtre National Populaire, du Quai-CDN d’Angers, et des communes Beaufort-en-Anjou, Loire-Authion, Baugé-en-Anjou.