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One of his plays on the Dutroux affair with children on stage was scandalous, another on the "Pussy Riot" was interrupted in Moscow: in Avignon, Milo Rau flirted again with the trangres. [19659002] For his new play presented this weekend, "La reprise, – Histoire (s) du théâtre (I)", the Swiss director chose a news item: the brutal murder of a young homobadual, Ihsane Jarfi, in 2012 in Liège in Belgium
"Some scenes of this show are likely to offend the sensitivity of the youngest," warns the Festival
The crime is reconstituted through testimonies, style dear to Milo Rau. But the crucial moment is raw: after being violently beaten, Ihsane, played by a moving Belgian actor, Tom Adjibi, is completely naked on stage. Then one of the three murderers urinated on his lifeless body.
"I leave very hard incidents to ask me how to represent on stage such an awful act and what are the limits of the bearable," says AFP Milo Rau. "I do not say to myself + ah no, that's too direct, I'm not going to do it."
The controversy has marked the pieces of the 41-year-old artist, hailed as one of the directors The most avant-garde scene in Europe
Since "The Moscow Trials" (2013) on the band Pussy Riot, "I have not obtained a visa in Russia," says the director. [19659002] – "The reality is a provocation" –
His other works have won trial and prohibition to play in several countries.
In March, it was the controversy too: the Belgian theater NTGent which he is the new director apologizes after having published an advertisement to recruit, as part of a show of Rau in September … jihadists who fought for the group Islamic State (IS).
Although baduming the transgressive character of his work, Milo Rau defends itself to seek controversy.
With the wars and the murders, "it is the reality which is a provo art, so can art too, "says Rau who made plays on Ceaucescu, the Rwandan genocide or the war in Congo
" But my works are more complex and not mere provocations ".
Thus, "Five Easy Pieces", the play about the Belgian pedophile Marc Dutroux with children telling the story of the investigation, made people cringe but was hailed by critics as a poetic work.
Poetics "The recovery" is also, because beyond the murder, the piece is also a reflection at once touching and not devoid of humor on what it means to stage a tragedy a scene. But sometimes there are "legal limits," he admits.
For his September show inspired by "The Mystic Lamb" – famous Flemish painting of the fifteenth century – the idea was to kill a lamb on stage. "It's a metaphor for Jesus but of course it's forbidden and I understand that because it means the closing of the theater."
– Need for "new Molières" –
Former student of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Rau says "ideologically impregnated" with this discipline: "Bourdieu told me + if you want to talk" boxing, you have to become a boxer. I do a job as a journalist, sociologist when I recreate something in the theater. "
This approach is evident in the" Recovery ", Rau and his team went to meet the parents and the friend by Ihsane to transpose the drama on stage: resolutely contemporary, he calls for a theatrical revival "It is always said that there are many things in Molière that speak to you. This is not true, we need new texts, new Molières, "he says.
Tradition, like the Bible, paradoxically remains for him a source of inspiration. make a film about Jesus that will undoubtedly flow a lot of ink.
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