When I lie to you, do you love me more ?

Capucine Lange and Arnaud Anckaert created the Théâtre du Prisme in 1998, a company based in the Hauts-de-France region. They discovered texts, with a pronounced taste for Anglo-Saxon authors, which they had translated, and which Arnaud Anckaert directed in French premiere. This was the case for Orphans, by Dennis Kelly, Constellations, by Nick Payne, Revolt. She said. Revolt again, by Alice Birch, and Earthquake, by Duncan Macmillan.

The company is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture-DRAC Hauts-de-France, and associated with the Comédie de Picardie in Amiens.

www.theatreduprisme.com

Robert Alan Evans was born in 1977 near Cardiff, Wales. He studied at the University of Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow as a writer and director. He has written numerous plays for children and young people including Kes, Caged, Pobby and Dingan and a teenage thriller The Dark. He is also the author of an adaptation of Peter Pan. He has worked on numerous children's theater projects with Andy Manley, an international performer and director. Their latest collaboration is Mikey and Addie, presented at the 2012 London Festival. His latest play for adults, The Woods, premiered at the Royal Court in September 2018. His work is translated in several countries, and primarily performed in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia.

His play Simon la Gadouille (l'Arche éditeur) received in 2014 the prize for the contemporary play for young audiences, in the CM2-6ème selection, by the Armand Gatti Theater Library and the Inspection académique du Var.

He trained at the Lassaad school in Brussels, and in 2005 joined the Unité Nomade de Formation à la mise en scène of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris. He has worked with Matthias Langhoff, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Bernard Chartreux, Kama Ginkas, Armand Gatti. As a text scout, he likes Anglo-Saxon writing, and creates the French premieres after having commissioned the translation. What interests me most is that the performer is at the heart of the show, and that the relationship he or she has with the audience is privileged. What I'm looking for is for the making of theater to be invisible and concrete. With my shows, I have an experience with the actors, and I feel responsible for the reality of what is put into play. I am looking for a close relationship with the audience, a taste for singular theater and a relationship of experience powerful enough to leave a memory as strong as a moment of intimacy. For me, it is a question of making the spectator active, alive, participating in the performance in the same way as the actor but in a different place. It is in this perspective that I am very attentive to the emotional process of the actor, to the development of thought and to determinism."

Text Dennis Kelly
Staging & scenography Arnaud Anckaert
With Leïla Muse & Antoine Ferron
Lights Daniel Levy
Music Benjamin Delvalle, avec Maxence Vandevelde
Costumes Alexandra Charles
Technical direction Christophe Durieux
Construction Thomas Ramon
Photos Frédéric Iovino

Production Compagnie Théâtre du prisme, Arnaud Anckaert et Capucine Lange

Coproduction Le Bateau Feu – Scène Nationale de Dunkerque, La Comédie de Picardie – Scène Conventionnée d’Amiens, La rose des vents, Scène Nationale Lille Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, Théâtre Jacques Carat – Cachan, La Ville de Saint-Quentin, EPCC La Barcarolle – Arques

Supported by le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, de la SPEDIDAM, du Festival Prise Directe

Developed with the support of the French Cultural Ministry