François Rabelais: Pantagruel

Pantagruel
Text: François Rabelais
Director: Benjamin Lazar
Artistic conception and adaptation: Benjamin Lazar and Olivier Martin-Salvan Collaboration in the direction: Amélie Enon
Composition and musical direction: David Colosio
Dramaturgical research: Mathilde Hennegrave
Scenography: Adeline Caron
assisted by Sylvie Bouguennec
Lights: Pierre Peyronnet
Costumes: Adeline Caron and Julia Brochier
Assisted by Margaux Sardin
with
Olivier Martin-Salvan actor
Benjamin Bédouin cornets and flutes
Miguel Henry lute and guitar

It was under the name of Alcofrybas Nasier that François Rabelais published in 1532, the adventures of Pantagruel, son of the giant Gargantua.

Alcofrybas Nasier himself, who served and accompanied his master Pantagruel on his travels, is responsible for sharing them with his audience in all their extraordinary dimensions and all their truth. Soon joined by two enigmatic acolytes, Alcofrybas details the extraordinary journey of his hero: the gigantic family tree of Pantagruel, the apocalyptic circumstances of his birth, the strength of his appetite, soon relayed by his equal appetite for knowledge, his discovery Paris, his father's advice for his studies, his decisive encounter with the disconcerting Panurge, who will be his traveling companion to the distant and mysterious lands of "frozen words", a detour taken from the Quart-Livre, making us touch the heart of the vitality of the language of Rabelais.

Finally, we make, with the narrator and his two companion-musicians, the ultimate journey, entering inside the very giant whose gigantic humanist initiation we have followed, with amusement and admiration; before Alcofrybas quickly takes leave of us, reviving our curiosity for the rest of these adventures...