PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY 10 FEB 2011, 19H
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Eden matin midi et soir
Chloé Delaume, text and sound creation
Anne Steffens, actress
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Chloé Delaume
Chloé Delaume, author of experimental texts, often fictional autobiography, has created the character Adèle in Eden morning noon and evening for actress Anne Steffens.
“Every 55 minutes, someone commits suicide in France. Adèle is one of those who have been trying to end their lives. In a hospital room, where she awakes after her nth attempt, Adèle rehearses. What she is going to tell the doctor so that he lets her go; what she is going to say to her relatives who will survive her. Because her Ego is fractured into multiple inner voices, Adèle’s thought is scattered, fragmented, conflicted. Adèle explores every recess of her pathology with the sense of humor of those beyond despair. Her illness is complex, and manifests itself and reflects upon itself in a mental landscape throughout this monologue which lasts, of course, fifty-five minutes.”
Chloé Delaume
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Chloé Delaume
(Born in 1973)
She has been publishing experimental texts for the past ten years, often biographical fiction, and explores different literary forms. Novels, essays, plays, short stories, poetical texts, and radio dramas: she has written over a dozen works and has been included in numerous anthologies. She is also interested in the musical dimension of language, in its composition, and its performative transposition. On her own or in collaboration with other artists (Dorine Muraille, The Penelopes, and currently with Maxime Bernard), she develops sound pieces and performances (text/sound). She conceives each project as a singular laboratory, with its own issues and its own tools. For her, literature must not be an object of entertainment.
Anne Steffens
After she had graduated in 2000 from the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique in Nancy, she moved to Paris and has worked with different stage directors, such as Françoise Bette, Théo Hakola, Evguéni Grichkovets, Patrick Haggiag, and the translator André Markowicz. Most recently, at Lieu Unique in Nantes, she interpreted the character of Veronika in Je me mets au milieu mais laissez-moi dormir (I take the middle but let me sleep), an adaptation of a Jean Eustache screen play The Mother and the Whore produced for the stage by Dorian Rossel and created in Geneva for the La Bâtie Festival (2008). Anne Steffens also participates in radio dramas for France Culture. In March 2009, in the festival Étrange Cargo at the Ménagerie de verre (Paris), she performed the monologue Eden matin midi et soir (Eden morning noon and evening) written for her by Chloé Delaume.
In the movies, she can be seen in Cédric Klapisch’s Les Poupées Russes (Russian Dolls), Guillaume Brac’s Une Aventure de Valentine (Valentine’s Adventure), and in Benoît Forgeard’s La Course Nue (The Naked Race)—a role which brought her a nomination to the Lutin Short Film Award for the best actress. This year, Anne Steffens is a member of the next pre-selection jury of L’Aide au Film Court.
