1-5 ©Sanne Peper
Serge, Marc and Yvan have been friends for fifteen years. Serge occasionally likes to splash out on modern art. Marc doesnt. Yvan doesnt feel strongly either way. Serge buys an all-white painting for 60,000 euros. Marc thinks this is absurd and makes his feelings known. Caught in the middle, Yvan tries to patch things up but actually makes them worse. The question is: will the friendship survive?
Yasmina Reza (°1959) is a French writer and actor. Her father was a Jewish-Iranian engineer of Russian descent, her mother a Jewish-Hungarian violinist. Art, Rezas most famous play, was premièred in Paris on October 28th 1994 and the next year it won the Molière for best playwright and best show in an independent theatre. It has since been translated into thirty-five languages.
Art is of course first and foremost a brilliant tragicomedy, but the increasingly cynical neoliberal discourse about the relevance of art and culture make it punishingly topical once more.
When is art art?
How much should it cost?
Should a country spend money on art?
Should your hobby be subsidized?
1-6 ©Sanne Peper
In French
text Yasmina Reza
by and with Kuno Bakker, Gillis Biesheuvel and Frank Vercruyssen
coproduction STAN & Dood Paard
lighting design Julian Maywald
production STAN & Dood Paard
premiere May 2nd 2017, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse
“Brilliantly staged and performed by the actors of tg STAN and Dood Paard, who, as they have always done and probably always will, place the text at the heart of their creation while freeing it from all the contrivances of the theatre.”
Nicole Clodi, La Dépêche du Midi, 5 May 2017
“In reviving this play, acclaimed by the general public, tg STAN perpetuates its defining principle: theatre is not an elitist art. The version of Yasmina Reza’s work it has produced with Dood Paard enhances the value of artists, even while the playwright is lambasting the world of contemporary art.”
Marie Anezin, Ventilo, 10 May 2017
“A successful revival of a memorable nineties theatrical hit, Art displays all its humour, accuracy and depth in this production, which is typical of the work of tg STAN and Dood Paard.”
Eric Demey, La Terrasse newspaper, 29 May 2017
“The performance is a success. The three actors – Kuno Bakker (Serge), Gillis Biesheuvel (Yvan) and Frank Vercruyssen (Marc) – are all tremendous. They appropriate Yasmina Reza’s words with so much intelligence, and turn their foreign accents, which at first glance could have been a handicap, into a real asset.”
Isabel Fauvel, Les Soirées de Paris, 30 May 2017
2018
october
Thu 04.10.18 19:30
Crossing the Line Festival
New York
Fri 05.10.18 19:30
Crossing the Line Festival
New York
Sat 06.10.18 19:30
Crossing the Line Festival
New York
2017
may
Tue 02.05.17 20:00
Théâtre Garonne
Toulouse
Wed 03.05.17 20:00
Théâtre Garonne
Toulouse
Thu 04.05.17 20:00
Théâtre Garonne
Toulouse
Fri 05.05.17 20:30
Théâtre Garonne
Toulouse
Sat 06.05.17 20:30
Théâtre Garonne
Toulouse
Tue 09.05.17 20:30
Théâtre de l'Olivier
Istres
Thu 11.05.17 19:30
Bois de l’Aune
Aix-en-Provence
Fri 12.05.17 20:30
Bois de l’Aune
Aix-en-Provence
Sat 13.05.17 19:30
Bois de l’Aune
Aix-en-Provence
Mon 15.05.17 18:00
Theatre de Lorient
Lorient
Tue 16.05.17 18:00
Theatre de Lorient
Lorient
Wed 17.05.17 18:00
Theatre de Lorient
Lorient
Fri 19.05.17 18:30
La Scène Watteau
Nogent-sur-Marne
Sat 20.05.17 18:30
La Scène Watteau
Nogent-sur-Marne
june
Fri 02.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Sat 03.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Tue 06.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Wed 07.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Thu 08.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Fri 09.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Sat 10.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Tue 13.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Wed 14.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Thu 15.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Fri 16.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Sat 17.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Tue 20.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Wed 21.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Thu 22.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Fri 23.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Sat 24.06.17 18:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Mon 26.06.17 20:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Tue 27.06.17 20:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Wed 28.06.17 20:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Thu 29.06.17 20:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Fri 30.06.17 20:00
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
augustus
Thu 24.08.17 20:30
Théâtre de Poche
Hédé-Bazouges
Fri 25.08.17 20:45
Théâtre de Poche
Hédé-Bazouges
Sat 26.08.17 20:45
Théâtre de Poche
Hédé-Bazouges