Un sacre

To write this show, Lorraine de Sagazan and author Guillaume Poix decided to go out and meet as many people as possible, as a way of breaking the enforced isolation in which we were all immersed. Over a six-month period, they met nearly three hundred people.

As the stories unfolded, they realized that in almost every story they heard, there was a dead person present. In meeting these living people, they had the sensation of meeting their dead.
Where to mourn the dead? Where to talk about them? Where to talk about our own death? It seemed to them that a place was missing.

A place where atheists, rationalists, skeptics, agnostics, those who doubt, those who don’t know, those who would like to believe but can’t, could talk about death without taboos, fear or prejudice.

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Press reviews

The director offers an intense show, an “experience of absolute closeness and consolation” with cathartic power. (…) This success is due, last but not least, to the striking presence of the actors, who are always themselves, through the stories they embody. (…) Life is not always kind, but Lorraine se Sagazan’s death is a magnificent gift.

Fabienne Darge, Le Monde

Their show is a celebration, mixing joy with tears, and even zany humor with the most sensitive distress. Proof, once again, of the sublimating power of theater (…) This sacred, with its danced climaxes and its progression towards a rediscovered abundant nature, could also resonate with Stravinsky’s work. Striking.

Emmanuelle Bouchez, Télérama

Un sacre radiates from every angle, from its beautiful scenography to the singularity of each story. The performers are flamboyant, their tones varied and their public addresses powerful. A magnificent dance chorus accompanies the words and the dead. This show exudes an intense, feverish energy (…) Frontal and moving, Un sacre brings to a climax the essence of the theatrical experience, both individual and collective.

Marie Plantin, Théâtre(s)

Sagazan turns the audience into an active force, making the spectator a witness to this profane ceremony. It aggregates individual vulnerabilities into a compassionate community, not maudlin but redemptive. Spinoza might have put it this way: A coronation is not a victory over death, but a victory of life.

Matthias Daval, I/O Gazette

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