Au Bon Pasteur – Peines mineures (2)

Le Quai is a Centre dramatique national, a place where new forms and writing, reflecting society in all its diversity, richness, and complexity. It has been directed by Marcial Di Fonzo Bo since 2023.
Le Quai CDN collaborates with artists Tiphaine Raffier, Gurshad Shaheman, Nathalie Béasse, Sonia Chiambretto, and the Nouveau Théâtre Populaire. Located in Angers, it shares this spaces with the Cndc – Centre national de danse contemporaine; together, they support an international project focused on contemporary creation and the transmission of the performing arts.

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Author of around ten books published by L’Arche Éditeur, Actes Sud-Papiers, Filigranes Éditions, and Éditions Nous, Sonia Chiambretto is also active in the fields of performance and visual arts. Multiplying perspectives and blending original writing with archival documents, she shapes a raw, musical language. She describes her work as writing “foreign French languages.” Her texts are regularly brought to the stage by directors and choreographers in France and internationally.
In 2017, she founded the Groupe d’information sur les ghettos (g.i.g) with Yoann Thommerel, and in 2019 they co-founded Compagnie Le Premier Épisode. She wrote and directed the play Oasis Love at Théâtre Ouvert, co-produced with Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and the 2023 Festival d’Automne. That same year, she co-created the installation Cœur en flammes with textile artist Delphine Dénéréaz for the Nîmes Contemporary Art Triennial.
In 2025, curators Victorine Grataloup and Camille Ramanana Rahary developed, with and around her work, the group exhibition Comme un printemps, je serai nombreuse at the contemporary art centre Triangle-Astérides in Marseille. She also publishes regularly in poetry journals and leads workshops in art schools, community centres, and beyond.
For her next production, premiering at Le Quai CDN in September 2026, Sonia Chiambretto directs her latest text À nos enfants glorieux, a play for five performers, including Inès Quaireau. She is associated as an author at Le Quai CDN Angers.

Born in Buenos Aires, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo trained in dramatic arts at the École du Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes. In 1994, he founded the theatre collective Les Lucioles. He has directed numerous works by contemporary playwrights such as Copi, Jean Genet, Leslie Kaplan, Martin Crimp, Lars Norén, Fassbinder, Rafael Spregelburd, Guillermo Pisani, Jean-Luc Lagarce…
As an actor, he has been directed by Claude Régy, Rodrigo García, Olivier Py, Jean-Baptiste Sastre, Luc Bondy, and Christophe Honoré. In 1995, he received the Syndicat de la Critique award for his performance in Richard III, directed by Matthias Langhoff.
In 2004, he was awarded Best Actor for Le Couloir by Philippe Minyana. On screen, he has acted under the direction of Petr Zelenka, Woody Allen, Maïwenn, Christophe Honoré, Claude Mourieras, François Favrat, Brigitte Roüan, Gilles Bourdos, and Émilie Deleuze.
In opera, he has staged King Arthur by Purcell in Geneva, Così fan tutte by Mozart in Dijon, La Grotta di Trofonio by Salieri in Lausanne, and Surrogate Cities by Heiner Goebbels in Rennes.
Together with Élise Vigier, they directed multiple plays by Copi and collaborated with Argentine playwright Rafael Spregelburd between 2008 and 2012. In 2010, he co-wrote Rosa la Rouge with Claire Diterzi, directed Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig, and La Mère by Florian Zeller. In 2014, he staged Une Femme by Philippe Minyana and Dans la République du Bonheur by Martin Crimp at the Théâtre National de la Colline.
In 2014, he directed his first film, Démons by Lars Norén (Arte), and later staged the play at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris. Demoni premiered the following year in Genoa and Milan.
In 2015, he became the director of the Comédie de Caen - Centre Dramatique National de Normandie, where he created Vera by Petr Zelenka, M comme Méliès (winner of the Molière Award for Best Young Audience Show), Le Royaume des animaux by Roland Schimmelpfennig, the musical Buster Keaton, and Le Portrait de Raoul by Philippe Minyana. In 2022, he reprised his role as Richard III and directed two plays by Jean-Luc Lagarce: Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne and Music-Hall. He also performed in Rivage à l’abandon. Médée-matériau. Paysage avec Argonautes by Heiner Müller, directed by Matthias Langhoff.
In May 2023, he created Tango y Tango at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris, with a libretto by Santiago Amigorena and music by Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project).
In 2023, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo became director of Le Quai CDN in Angers. He performed in Portrait de l’artiste après sa mort (France 41 – Argentine 78) by Davide Carnevali at Le Quai and on tour (Caen, Liège, Théâtre de la Bastille, among others). He directed the opera Ernest et Victoria at La Cité Bleue in Geneva in 2024.
In October 2024, he created Dolorosa – Trois anniversaire ratés by Rebekka Kricheldorf at Le Quai CDN, followed in autumn 2025 by Au Bon Pasteur – Peines mineures (2) by Sonia Chiambretto and Il s’en va – Portrait of Raoul (Part 2) by Philippe Minyana at Les Plateaux Sauvages in Paris.
In Songe, created in March 2026, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo explores Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play, Le songe d’une nuit d’été. The production will tour in autumn 2026.

Inès initially trained in dramatic arts at the La Roche-sur-Yon Conservatory, where she studied for three years alongside Anne-Lise Redais and Laurent Brethome. In 2022, she joined the Cycle Préparatoire à l’Enseignement Supérieur at the Angers Conservatory, in partnership with Le Quai CDN in Angers, under the direction of Thomas Jolly and later Marcial Di Fonzo Bo. During these two years of training, she worked with Christophe Garcia, Damien Gabriac, Charline Porrone, Damien Avice, Sonia Chiambretto and Marcial Di Fonzo Bo.
In 2023, she played Cléo Néo in KTR, directed by Damien Gabriac as part of the third edition of the DESC (Département d’Écriture pour la Scène Contemporaine). The following year, she performed the role of Louise in Buster Keaton, un garçon incassable, directed by Élise Vigier and Marcial Di Fonzo Bo. She is currently collaborating on the direction of Intro by Dylan Roncin. In September 2026, she will appear in À nos enfants glorieux, the next production by Sonia Chiambretto.
In cinema, she has appeared in several short films, including CHEW, directed by Félix Dobaire (available on Canal+), L’Algorithme du Lait, directed by Emilie Janin (available on France TV), and Jacques, directed by Ilan Teboul.

Text Sonia Chiambretto
Direction Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
Performed by Inès Quaireau
Assistant director Margot Madec
Stage management Vincent Bedouet

Production Le Quai CDN Angers
With the support and technical assistance of Les Plateaux Sauvages, Paris