Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
MNEMOSYNE
THEATER
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ABOUT
Mnemosyne Theater
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Founded in 2021, Mnemosyne Theater is a french-greek performing arts company promoting new forms of fictions and expressions.
PRΕsident
Miguel Borras
director, teacher
TrEAsUrer
Makis Solomos
musicologist
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
director, author, actor
poETRY
To defend drama as poetry, the poetry of language, of visual representation, of the body. To intertwine all the arts in order to explore all kinds of imaginations. To use the matter that conveys emotions and sensations: speech, music, dance, silence. To view the scene as a space where research, freedom and empowerment happen.
POLITICS
Drama as a tool to explore our society and all the forces that partake of it. To question the social hierarchy and ponder together new alternatives. To create artistic forms together with the citizens while keeping tuned to the world around us. To put drama at the core of citizenship and democratic life.
Culture
To develop cultural exchanges in order to share drama practice with as many people as possible. To help all kind of people to have access to drama. To start international exchanges, especially between France and Greece, so as to share artistic experiences together beyond languages and borders.
mEMORY
To view drama as a heritage from the past, a testimony of the present, and a promise for the future. To bring history onto the scene, in order to better question our world, and contemplate the world of tomorrow. To give the public memories of life. To build a common memory of humanity, so as not to forget.
YERSINIA PESTIS
©️ Célia Bolzoni
Dans un monde qui se délite, une femme vient prendre la parole. Elle a traversé le temps. Elle a voyagé dans le monde. Elle n’appartient à aucune époque ni à aucun lieu. Elle est tour à tour témoin, victime et bourreau. Autour d’elle, des figures d’un ancien monde en train de chuter. Son récit est celui d’une ascension progressive vers la folie de son temps. Elle a vécu les guerres, les maladies, les révolutions. Pourtant, elle vient avec le sourire. Elle vient nous raconter son histoire, ses histoires. Car l’histoire se répète, avec le sourire, en attendant le nouveau monde.
Texte & mise en scène
Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
Interprétation
Amélie Osmond
Jonas Roth
Paul Fortini
Alexis Lidec | Noé Mercier-Follacci
Scénographie & costumes
Myriam Rhziyel
CALENDRIER
Festival des Dionysades (Saint-Denis / 93) : du 13 au 22 avril 2022
Festival Remue-Ménage (Domont / 95): 7 mai 2022
Festival de l’Olmu (Olmeto / Corse) : 9 & 10 août 2023
RiTES I Lavoir Moderne Parisien : 3 octobre 2023
PRODUCTION & SOUTIENS
Les Dionysades
L’École Auvray-Nauroy
La Ménagerie de l’Improbable
Théâtre de l’Olmu
RiTES Festival
FONPEPS
NOLOM EBAL
In 480 BC, Leonidas decided to not abandon the battle against the King of the Persians.
In 1836, Texan revolutionaries were besieged for thirteen days at Fort Alamo byMexican troops.
In 2013, members of the Golden Dawn organization laid laurels under the statue of Leonidas in Sparta.
In 2021, the Capitol of the United States of America was invaded by supporters of the outgoing president.
These events have a common point, they are united by the same motto : Molon Labe, come and take them.
Embodiment of courage and emancipation, this adage supposedly pronounced 2500 years ago, has survived through the ages to become a symbol of Greek, European and American far-right movements of today.
How has an ancient incantation over the centuries become a flag is different struggles in various parts of the world, even across different centuries ? Why do we seek to appropriate the slogans of the past to involve ourselves in the present's fights ? What are the links that unite us in our desire to act and defend our vision of the world ? What does the word “resistance” means today ?
Poetically and politically, the Molon Labe project attempts to answer these questions by exploring individual stories within collective destinies. The show questions the presence and commitment of each when it comes to face the disorder of the world, telling the battles, big and small, of men and women. And try, even for the instant of theater, to not surrender.
“So, that was it. I was part of something big, something important. And I couldn't say no.”
“Πολλά αίματα. To αίμα καλεί το αίμα, λένε. Και εγώ πρέπει να κρύψω το αίμα κάτω από το χαλί, σαν να μη συνέβη τίποτα.”
“Αφήνω τους άλλους ελεύθερους και κοιτάζω τον ουρανό. Φαντάζομαι καινούργιους κόσμους. Είμαι ελεύθερη να φανταστώ. Φαντάζομαι ελεύθερους κόσμους. Είμαι ελεύθερη.”
“ - Et pourquoi lutter si la vie vous importe si peu ?
- C'est ma manière à moi de vivre.”
Text & stage direction
Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
With
Denia Mimerini
Titos Grigoropoulos
Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
Scenography & costumes
Myriam Rhziyel
Technical & artistic collaboration
Martha Kotsia
Musical composition
Jonas Roth
CALENDAR
Autumn 2024 : creation / Athens
more informations to be revealed soon...
CITY’S WORKSHOP
The City’s Workshop offers, thanks to artistic activity, exploration of the relations between citizens and their region, their city or their neighborhood. The workshop is a field of thought, experimentation, exchange, where participants, of any age, social class, origin, can interrogate their personal and group bond with the city : their relationship with architecture, language, society, or with the heritage of history on their city and their identity. How do we build ourselves through our community? How do we create our small space within large spaces ? How do we tell our “little” story around “big” stories ?
In order to answer these questions, Memosyne Theater’s team offers workshops of writing, theatre, visual arts and music, to cross the theme of the city under different artistic perspectives and connect various artistic disciplines.
Wish to organize a workshop ? contact us !
ODCK
Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
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©️ Célia Bolzoni
Born and raised in Paris, Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis is a french-greek actor, director and author. He began theater in 2014 with Robert Cantarella for his creation “Notre Faust” at the Théâtre Ouvert in Paris, then in 2017 for “Notre Faust-season 2” at the national theater Nanterre-Amandiers. He then joined the theater school Auvray-Nauroy, where he studied acting for four years. In 2018, he joined the company La Ménagerie de l'Improbable where he will create the show “Orpheus-A 3xri1 Project” performed in France in 2020. In 2021, he played for Eram Sobhani in Botho Schtrauss' “Schändung”. In 2022, he founded the French-Greek company Mnemosyne Theater and linked his activity as author and director, creating the show “Yersinia Pestis” which will be performed in several festivals in France. The same year, he was assistant director for the International Stage Direction Workshop, organized by R&C Company, as well as actor in the play “La Marelle” by Théo Bianconi. In 2023, Orphée starts his journey in Athens, beginning the rehearsals for his new play, a tragi-comedy on the theme of resistance.
Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis is also a theater teacher in schools, as a member of the theater company La nouvelle compagnie. He also teaches improvisation and regularly leads writing workshops.
CONTACT
Association Loi 1901
mnemosynetheater@gmail.com
+ 33 (0)6.95.87.48.32 (FR)
+ 33 (0)6.29.88.07.41 (FR)
+ 30.69.71.53.22.93 (GR)
@mnemosynetheater
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