How to Empty the Sea With a Spoon

A birth is often an opportunity to revive links with the close and the distant. The birth of a play allows an artist to revive links with those who make plays possible and to say a few things about the origins and of the chosen paths. I want to talk of a play and of its ways of travelling. From the beginning I have striven to give the art of storytelling a place on a theatre stage. That is all I do: by exploring the content and the form and, at times, getting to meet the world.  Not always.  I could not imagine that How to empty the sea with a spoon would resonate that much with the present times.
A play that speaks but of that!  Of religious stories, of our need for the infinite, of what to do with these stories today.  I approach religious texts from the book for what they are: stories, tales, told in different ways, with surprising developments, offering infinite possibilities of interpretation. Of their mortifying dimension when  reduced to a single truth. They have made  our world, they still shape our everyday  life, and not to know them certainly is  a fragile inheritance of our anticlericalism.
One could not settle for ignorance, for the denial of those texts.  If my questions could fuel this fundamental debate in our society, then…

Yannick Jaulin