A man speaks to animals, that is to beings that do not respond. He speaks to three hundred mute eyes. He delivers Le Discours des animaux,
a suite of eleven « promenades », a navigation through the interior,
primarily through his own language and his words. A man speaks to
animals and thus tells them of things that one does not voice: for
instance, of what we experience when we are pushed to the extreme, torn,
in deepest darkness and not far from a light, without words and close
to an outcome. In 1986, André Marcon presented The Animal of time,
first part of Valère Novarina’s Speech to animals (P.O.L). He has
regularly come back to this show, his steady companion : each time he
offers us a different view, like a well-known forest that is never the
same, changing with the light, the hour or the weather.
Valère Novarina
By Valère Novarina Performed by André Marcon
Production déléguée L’Union des contraires L’Union des contraires is subsidised by the French Ministry of Culture & Communication Coréalisation C.I.C.T. - Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord