The Force That Ravages Everything by David Lescot

The Force That Ravages Everything is quite simply a play about love.

A love conceived not as an idyllic feeling, but as a force that seizes us and contaminates us, a kind of violent and uncontrollable disease, a devastating principle that turns everything upside down, ruins our resolutions to order and to reason, and triggers demented and anarchic behavior in us.

In short, this love which blows on the characters of the play like a wind of madness, is a true revolutionary principle, on the scale of their lives, giving rise to senseless decisions, opposed to all calculation, to all economy, to all standards. , to any principle of profitability, balance or interest. Both fatal and liberating, it is pure expense and even pure loss.

This stunning vision of the feeling most sung by poets will take the form of a musical. In the musical, the sung and danced numbers intervene like so many detachments from reality, enchantments, emotional levitations that are no longer enough to translate the spoken dramatic form.

Musical comedy then, since we are talking about fate and sorcery, about bewitchments of which we can no longer say whether they are harmful or beneficial, and it does not matter since they produce euphoria and frenzy, these extreme states never better translated, in my opinion , than through music, song and dance.

The Force that destroys everything
Text, direction and music: David Lescot

with
Candice Bouchet, Elise Caron, Pauline Collin, Ludmilla Dabo, Marie Desgranges, Matthias Girbig, Alix Kuentz, Emma Liégeois, Yannick Morzelle, Antoine Sarrazin, Jacques Verzier
Anthony Capelli: drums, Fabien Moryoussef: keyboards, Philippe Thibault: bass, Ronan Yvon: guitar

Choreography: Glysleïn Lefever assisted by Rafaël Linares Torres
Musical direction: Anthony Capelli
Scenography: Alwyne de Dardel assisted by Inês Mota
Costumes: Mariane Delayre
Lights: Matthieu Durbec
Sound: Alex Borgia
General management: Pierre-Yves Le Borgne
Producer: Véronique Felenbok and Marion Arteil
Broadcaster: Carol Ghionda
Press: Olivier Saksik – Elektronlibre

Production: Kaïros Company
Co-production: City Theater – Paris, National Drama Center of Tours – Olympia Theater, Château Rouge -Annemasse, L’Archipel – national stage of Perpignan, Créteil – Maison des Arts, Cornouaille Theater – National Stage of Quimper, Molière Theater– Sète – Thau archipelago national stage, Rungis Theater
With the support of the professional integration scheme of ENSATT
Residency: Rungis Theater, Créteil – Maison des Arts, La Ferme du Buisson – Marne-la-Vallée National Stage
David Lescot is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
The Compagnie du Kaïros is approved by the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Ile de France

From January 14 to 27, 2023: City Theater – Espace Cardin
From February 1 to 4, 2023: Tours CDN
February 28, March 1, 2023: Château Rouge – Annemasse
March 10, 2023: Rungis Theater
16, 17 March 2023: Perpignan SN
May 25, 26, 27, 2023: MAC – Créteil
June 8, 2023: Quimper SN