Description

The Boys and Guillaume, to the Table! is the story of a young boy who grows up in a bourgeois family where the gaze of his mother and others confines him to an identity he did not choose.<p> Through anecdotes, childhood memories, and family situations often tinged with humor and pain, Guillaume explores the construction of his identity, marked by unspoken words and persistent illusions that influence his vision of himself.</p><p> A one-man show performed by Sebastian Trente, an actor whose career was disrupted by the onset of significant visual impairment due to a rare genetic disease.<br> This show marks his great return, not despite his disability, but with it, as an assumed and transcended presence.</p><p> "I didn't want to highlight the actor's visual impairment. It wasn't the subject or the focus of the staging. But knowing he is visually impaired allows us, I believe, to better understand the nature of his gaze, to perceive differently how he resonates with the text, with the space, with the audience. It's a unique gaze, full of humanity, sensitivity, and attentiveness, which never seeks to impose itself, but which fully exists."</p><p> I wanted to develop this character in a world deeply connected to childhood: its spontaneity, its raw joy, its precious naiveté, but also that fragile moment when a form of lucidity emerges, that passage where one grows, understands, and learns. All of this is approached with a poetic, sensory, and playful sensibility. There is something playful and lighthearted about the game, but also an intensity, a gaze that captures more than it reveals.</p><p> So it wasn't the disability I emphasized, but the presence of the man, the actor, the sensitive soul. And knowing, subtly, that he is visually impaired perhaps allows us to read his relationship to the text with even greater acuity and tenderness."<br><br> - Géraldine Blé, Director.</p>