Le Vice-Consul by Maud Andrieux
The Alliances Françaises of Canada present : Le Vice-Consul, a play adapted from the novel by Marguerite Duras by Maud Andrieux (Compagnie du Barrage).
India in the 1930s and French diplomacy. The Vice-Consul, far from home, on the other side of the world, in the midst of stench, misery and nameless horror, commits the irreparable to relieve other men. In Calcutta, awaiting a new posting, only Anne-Marie Stretter, the Ambassador’s wife, gets close to him. In the midst of general indifference, he’s perhaps the only one who’s still human. Le Vice-Consul embodies Duras’s view of the role of the writer as a whole, which is to express the unacceptable.
Maud Andrieux is a Stage Director, Actress and Artistic Director of Théâtre Marguerite Duras Itinérant since 2014.
Trained at the Théâtre des Ateliers d’Aix en Provence with Alain Simon, she entered the Conservatoire National de Région d’Art Dramatique de Bordeaux. Her choices then turned to directors involved in several contemporary creations. She adapts great playwrights for the stage, and her approach to directing favors an intimate relationship between text and audience.
On her way back from her first trip to Vietnam in 2003, she came across the writing of Marguerite Duras, and was deeply moved by her literary work. Encouraged by her director Gilbert Tiberghien, she created the Compagnie du Barrage. Numerous performances followed in Paris, Trouville-sur-Mer for the annual Marguerite Duras Encounters, in France, then in Cambodia, Vietnam, Morocco, Turkey, Italy, Nepal, India and Canada as part of the Réseau Culturel Français à l’Étranger.
“Subliminal, of course! Maud Andrieux’s adaptation of this allusive novel by Marguerite Duras is both a clarification and a tribute to a form. The staging is light, made to travel. It’s a theater of evocation, of suspension…”
Sud Ouest
“Set to haunting music and Frédéric Paquet’s skilfully studied chiaroscuro backdrops, Maud Andrieux, Marguerite Duras’s sensual and sensible “interpreter”, sinks with great finesse and refined intelligence into the secret folds of M.D.’s psyche, exhaling its dark, intoxicating perfumes, anger and distress.”
Inferno
“Maud Andrieux, with her youth and adolescent beauty, succeeds in prolonging the time of the encounter, of the emotion generated by the text. Theater time. She interprets Duras’ texts with a sincerity and accuracy that place her as close as possible to herself, her truth and her desire.”
Alain Vircondelet
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