• Tuesday 2 November 2010 - 20h30
• Wednesday 3 November 2010 - 20h30
• Thursday 4 November 2010 - 20h30
• Friday 5 November 2010 - 20h30
• Saturday 6 November 2010 - 15h00
• Saturday 6 November 2010 - 20h30

Party Silence
We can see them, we can’t hear them. They have come together to celebrate… what? Who knows? In the neighbourhood, a ghost is lurking.

For this almost totally silent show, British director Matthew Lenton was partly inspired by Maeterlinck’s play The Interior. An old man welcomes his close friends and relatives to a big dinner party thrown to celebrate the end of winter. One after the other, the guests take a seat around the table. We can see them through the windows of the house as if we were outside. Not a single word is uttered, but, like voyeurs, we observe this warm company laugh, eat, flirt, have fun and talk about this and that – in silence. Hence a disquieting impression of mystery emanating from the scene and confirmed by the narrative of an actress who is not part of the party. Thus Matthew Lenton plays on different temporalities in this show in which the question at hand is the death of a young lady who may or may not have committed suicide. A shadow hangs over the family’s festivities, and behind the light-heartedness, the laughs and the joy of the reunion, there also dwell grinning death and the ghosts from a troubled past.

Hugues Le Tanneur