• Étrange

    Music and Literature

  • A reading of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart by actor Éric Malgouyres
    With musical accompaniment by Carjez Gerretsen on clarinet and David Louwerse on cello
    Featuring works by Thierry Pécou, Graciane Finzi, Alfred Schnittke, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dominique Lemaitre, Iannis Xenakis and improvisations 

  • The music naturally intertwines with Edgar Allan Poe's monologue, amplifying its tensions and underlining its silences. In this show, listening becomes more attentive, the senses sharpened by the timbres, pulsations and vibrations of sound. At times, time seems suspended, and silence becomes a character in its own right. Breaths, echoes, muffled shudders and strange sounds punctuate the reading, intensifying every word, every beat of the text... For at the heart of this work is madness. And murder, relentless, inexorable.

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Reviews

  • Une tension qui sourd aux confins d’une folie sans cesse démentie.

    La Terrasse, 2025
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Program

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Duo n°3, 2nd movement

    Graciane Finzi

    9 minutes 30

    Thierry Pécou

    Manoa

    Thierry Pécou

    Outre-némoire

  • Dominique Lemaître

    Toth

    Iannis Xenakis

    Charisma

    Alfred Schnittke

    Hymn II

    Carjez Gerretsen

    Terrain glissant

Cast

  • Carjez Gerretsen clarinets
    David Louwerse or Raphaël Jouan cello
    Éric Malgouyres actor

Performances

  • July 14-17, 2025
    Collection Lambert, Avignon
    As part of Festival Interférences

  • INFORMATION

    Duration: 50 minutes

    The show can be used for educational purposes and to raise awareness of fantasy literature.

    With the support of Odia Normandie.