After two editions disrupted by Covid, a particular energy emerges this year. For the first time, the literary festival has chosen two guests of honor and offers a multidisciplinary program with circus, theatre, aperitifs, concerts…
A 32nd edition to reinvent itself. The festival has chosen to honor not one, but two guests this year with Pierre Ducrozet and Alice Zeniter, the youngest authors in the history of the festival. Two emerging voices of French literature who together carry forward the original theme: fictions and crossroads.
Until November 27, about fifty cultural meetings will enlighten the Tarn-et-Garonne public on literary creation, a way to go intimately behind the scenes of the making of a novel. To seduce and challenge a large audience, the festival team wanted to expand its programming. There will be circus shows (new), musical performances, theatre, an evening with a DJ or the Rio concert aperitif.
“Crossroads” to launch the edition
Last night in an Olympe-de-Gouges theater decorated in the colors of the festival by the Espace Bourdelle Sculpture and the Compagnie Le Théâtrophone, the opening night gave the perfect “the” of this 32nd edition. After the opening of the festival bookshop with The Fox Woman and The Boat of Books, a film by Jean-Pierre Roussoulières presented the program times. After the speeches by the president of the festival Dominique Paillarse who did not fail to pay homage to Anne-Marie Garat, guest of honor of the 2019 edition who passed away this summer, the public was able to get to know Pierre Ducrozet, a great traveler who weaves stories in perpetual motion that they capture the impulses of our time and question our relationship with the world. At her side, the writer Alice Zeniter completes this honorable duo and lights up the scene with her presence. Since her first book written at the age of 16, she has written six more, including Dark Sunday (Inter Book Prize 2013) and The Art of Losing, which was a huge success and won several literary prizes. . The tables of a theater are no stranger to him. Alice Zeniter has also invested in the world of theater since the beginning of her career. You have collaborated with various directors and created the theater company L’Entente Cordiale in which you have staged various shows. In 2020 she created her first solo on stage which she then released under the title Je suis une fille sans histoire. As an extension of this reflection on the power of stories, she will publish A Whole Half of the World in 2022.
After a beautiful interlude danced by the dancers of the pre-professional training of the dance department, Pôle desformations arts de Montauban, a musical reading launched the 2022 program. With “Chemins de traverses” Alice Zeniter and Pierre Ducrozet accompanied by cellist Maëva Le Berre imagined a trip to some of their books. A first crossing of their territories.
Evening meetings at the theater…
The 16 November : Meetings with Eric Chevillard and Pierre Ducrozet at 6.30pm, then with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Alice Zeniter and Pierre Ducrozet at 8.30pm.The 18 November : Show by the Lapsus company, adaptation of the novel “Le Chant du vertige” by Pierre Ducrozet, at 10.30pm The 19 November : Musical reading of Paul’s Variations with Pierre Ducrozet and Rubin Steiner at 8.30pm The 20 November : Show adapted from Alice Zeniter’s novel The Art of Losing by Cie La Ronde at night at 7.00pm The 22 November : Staged reading adapted from Pierre Ducrozet’s novel The Invention of Bodies by Jacques Merle and Nathalie Vidal at 8.30pm The 25 November : Circus conference conducted by Compagnie La Volte-cirque with Matthieu Gary and Alice Zeniter at 8.30pm The 26 November : Performance alone on stage with Alice Zeniter “I’m a girl with no story” at 8.30pm The 27 November : Closing of the festival with the cross-readings of all the guests at 5.30 pm, followed by a musical cocktail with La Fanfara Fissa Papa. Learn more at www.confluences.org
