Angels in America

Angels in America spectacle ×

Text by Tony Kushner - French translation Pierre Laville
Pulitzer Prize 1993
Durée: 2h30
In French

“In our day and age, we may believe that AIDS can be treated, that it is “less serious” than it used to be, and that homosexuality is taken for granted. But that would be wrong. We know that people all over the world still die because of their sexual orientation, and that in our country, parents or colleagues still reject homosexuals when they step out into the open. We know that coming out is like opening a chasm at one’s feet.” Philippe Saire, a major figure of contemporary dance in Switzerland, has chosen to adapt Tony Kushner’s play for his first theatrical foray. In the United States in the 80s, at the height of the Reagan era, the lives of several characters criss-cross, going from strength to weakness. A community, then a whole society, struggles in the midst of an upheaval against “superior forces”; religious and political convictions are strengthened by the arrival of a plague…




Director and choreographer
Philippe Saire

Actors
Adrien Barazzone, Valeria Bertolotto, Pierre-Antoine Dubey, Joelle Fontannaz, Roland Gervet, Jonathan Axel Gomis, Baptiste Morisod

Assistant
Chady Abu-Nijmeh

Dramaturgy
Carine Corajoud

Light design
Eric Soyer

Sound design
Jérémy Conne

Scenography
Claire Pévérelli

Technical direction
Vincent Scalbert

Coproduction
Comédie de Genève, Arsenic, Centre d’art scénique contemporain - Lausanne, Théâtre des Martyrs - Bruxelles

Supports and partners
City of Lausanne, state of Vaud, Pro Helvetia, Label+ romand - arts de la scène, Loterie Romande, Fondation de Famille Sandoz, la Fondation Leenaards and Sophie und Karl Binding Stiftung. Cie Philippe Saire is in permanent residency in Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne.


Past dates

Mulhouse (FR)
15.12.2021
17.12.2021
Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
17.11.2021
18.11.2021
Avignon (FR)
06.07.2021
25.07.2021
Belfort [annulé] (FR)
12.03.2021
12.03.2021
Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
02.04.2020
03.04.2020
Delémont [annulé] (CH)
07.03.2020
07.03.2020
Bienne (CH)
05.03.2020
05.03.2020
Villars-sur-Glâne (CH)
20.02.2020
20.02.2020
Genève (CH)
13.01.2020
18.01.2020
Bruxelles (BE)
06.12.2019
14.12.2019
Lausanne (CH)
26.11.2019
01.12.2019