The play was first staged by Éric Vigner for the 50th Edition of the Theatre Festival in Avignon in July 1996 and then it was resumed in January 1997 for the inauguration of The Brâncuși Workshop from The Pompidou Center in Paris.
In April 2013 it was recreated as a reading-play in Matisse Hall of The Modern Art Museum in Paris and in 2015 it was performed at Passerelle, The Contemporary Art Center in Brest.
Éric Vigner studied first Fine Arts and then Theatre at l’École de la Rue Blanche and at Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique from Paris.
In 1990 founded The Suzanne M Company. His first staging was La Maison d’Os by Roland Dubillard.
In 1993 he met Marguerite Duras and he adapted for theatre her book La Pluie d’été, with which he toured in France and Russia.
Since 1996 he was director at CDDB–Théâtre de Lorient, Centre Dramatique National and he managed it for 20 years.
In 2002 he staged at Comédie-Française Savannah Bay by M. Duras and in 2004 La Bête dans la jungle at Kennedy Center from Washington. In 2006, for the 60th Edition of The Festival in Avignon he created Pluie d’été à Hiroshima.
At The National Theatre of Seoul (Korea) he made an adaptation of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, which was reproduced at The Comic Opera in Paris in 2006. In 2007 he staged The Barber of Seville at the Nation Theatre in Tirana (Albania), which was revived in 2009 at Théâtre de Lorient and with which he went on tour in India, in 2011. In 2008 he staged at 7 Stages from Atlanta– Dans la solitude des champs de coton by Bernard-Marie Koltès. In 2013 he created Gates to India Song, then The Vice-consul and India Song by Marguerite Duras at the Festival ”Bonjour India” in Bombay, Calcutta and New Delhi.
As an opera director he was attracted to the Baroque repertoire: La Didone by Cavalli (Opera in Lausanne, 2000), L’Empio punito by Melani (The Bach Festival in Leipzig, 2003) and Antigona by Traetta (Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, 2004). In 2013 he staged at Lorient Orlando by Haendel.
In 2014, at The ”Mettre en scène” Festival in Rennes, Vigner realized Tristan, his first text, free and contemporary variation around the myth of Tristan and Isolda, which was published at Solitaires Intempestifs Publishing. Tristan is the first part of a trilogy dedicated to love and death rituals, followed by Partage de Midi by Claudel and The Vice-consul by M. Duras. After he directed L’Illusion comique by Corneille for the inauguration of CDDB 20 years ago, he recreated this play to conclude his mandate as director at The National Dramatic Center Lorient.
The premiere will take place on Saturday, 10th of December 2016, at 19.30, in Studio Hall at The Odeon Theatre and it will be preceded by the book launch by Éric Vigner Brâncuși Against United States. Program-book realised by George Banu, and published by Curtea Veche Publishing.
The book launch will take place in the presence of the ES Ambassador of France in Romania, Mr. François Saint-Paul, the director Éric Vigner, the theatre critic George Banu, the editor in chief Cătălin Strat (Curtea Veche Publishing), and the visual artist Mircea Cantor, the creator of the image of the project.
The following representations will take place on 11th, 15th and 16th of December 2016, at 19.30, in Studio Hall.
