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A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud.<div> <em>"For years I have taken great pleasure in reading A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud in front of small gatherings of people curious about poetry. This work of reading, reinvented each time, and the feedback from listeners delighted to discover or rediscover this powerful, intense and mysterious work, indicate to me that it is time for me to broaden the circle of spectators and offer them A Season in Hell, on a stage where the staging, the acting, the music and the light will illuminate it in a new light.</em></div><div> <em>The text is not written for the stage, but are we not dealing here with an implacable monologue recounting the eight rounds of a "spiritual battle as brutal as a fight between men"? I wanted to further embody the violence of this inner struggle by introducing a sparring partner: a musician, Alex Grillo, who, by returning blows "with instinctive rhythms," would provoke the birth "of a poetic word accessible, sooner or later, to all the senses." Paul Laurent.</em></div><div><br></div>