-THE BLUE TIGER OF THE EUPHRATES
Laurent Gaudé / Tchéky Karyo
theater / production
-Friday, January 7 and Saturday, January 8 at 8:30 PM
-Tchéky KARYO speaks the words of Laurent GAUDÉ (The Death of King Tsongor, The Scorta’s Sun – Goncourt Prize 2004, Hurricane,…) to tell the story of Alexander the Great’s last battle, the one he cannot win…
-A top-level meeting between author Laurent Gaudé, director Michel Didym, and actor Tchéky Karyo
-Laurent Gaudé, Goncourt Prize winner 2004 for The Scorta’s Sun, and Michel Didym, founder of La Mousson d’été dedicated to contemporary writings, were meant to “meet”: it is there that The Blue Tiger of the Euphrates was read for the first time.
Today, Michel Didym stages this fascinating play whose hero is Alexander the Great, a bloody conqueror, insatiable architect, art lover, and curious about everything.
But it is even more so by the author’s discourse on the last battle the Emperor fights with death at the time of his last journey…
With “his raw sensitivity, his smoldering gaze, his honeyed voice,” Tchéky Karyo was made for this monologue whose language is rhythmic by cadence. Powerful and harsh at the same time. Like an echo, the music “played” by Steve Shehan, Vladislav Nadishana, and Charlotte Castellat elevates Alexander’s inner voice.
The Blue Tiger of the Euphrates takes us to ancient Babylon, with its golds, fabrics, and rare marbles. Its battles and resplendent victories, its intrigues…
