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DANS LA SOLITUDE DES CHAMPS DE COTON

The Voice of Your Brother's Blood Cries to Me from the Earth
by Bernard-Marie Koltès / 30 performances / 9 cities / FRANCE
With Xavier Gallais and Ivan Morane

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"Kristian Frédric today offers a truly electrifying vision of Koltès' dark poem."
L’Humanité - Jean-Pierre Léonardini

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"Embodied by Xavier Gallais and Ivan Morane, Bernard-Marie Koltès’ play is seized, as if transported and illuminated in a new light."
Manuel Piolat Soleymat - La Terrasse

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In the Solitude of Cotton Fields is reborn today at the Théâtre de la Ville through the grace of two immense actors: Xavier Gallais and Ivan Morane. [...] Those who have read Koltès' text savor every minute of this dense interpretation; those who have not are stunned, unsettled—even nearly forty years after its writing—by the radicality and restrained fury of the language."
Oriane Jeancourt Galignani - TRANSFUGE

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ARLETTY "Comme un oeuf dansant au milieu des galets"

by Koffi Kwahulé / 75 performances / 7 cities/ FRANCE

With Julia Leblanc-Lacoste

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"Kristian Frédric directs Julia Leblanc-Lacoste in a schizophrenic journey through love tinged with disgrace, set to Koffi Kwahulé’s blazing score. [...]
The actress gradually dons the pieces of her costume: from a bustier to a demure dress, she transforms from a bold, unrestrained lover to a presentable, composed bourgeois woman—knowing that, in these matters as in so many others, it is only the veil that grants respectability.
Koffi Kwahulé’s text pays homage to the sharp wit and defiant pride of the 'gueule d’atmosphère' of the Canal Saint-Martin—an audacious, stylish courtesan who wears the spit of last-minute resisters like a medal. Arletty and Julia Leblanc-Lacoste slap life back with dazzling confidence and a humor that is nothing less than the politeness of despair: one might clench their jaw at the provocation of passion boldly claimed for the enemy, but one cannot help but smile at the strength of those who believe that love is worth more than honor."

Catherine Robert - La Terrasse

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https://www.journal-laterrasse.fr/arletty-comme-un-oeuf-dansant-au-milieu-des-galets-de-koffi-kwahule-mise-en-scene-de-kristian-fredric/

CAMILLE "L'art, la beauté ne peut plus me sauver"

By François Douan / 11 performances / 4 cities / FRANCE

With Julie Papin, Johannes Oliver Hamm, Youri Fernandez

 

"Camille is the story of a love made impossible by war, sustained through a correspondence that becomes the very foundation of their separation. Through their letters, they share events and their common passion for art. But will this passion be enough to transcend the surrounding tragedy?

By placing the characters inside a transparent, living cube that transforms into a kind of Platonic cave—where echoes of reality and their passion are reflected—Kristian Frédric creates a unique, aesthetic world, both evocative and symbolic.

Serving the play, the radiant presence of the two outstanding actors unfolds, carried by the richness of the visual and sound environment. The audience is deeply moved by this timeless story, touched by the generosity of the performers and the beauty of the whole. In the end, they applaud enthusiastically. They understand that this tragic tale is also their own. With its procession of horrors, the madness of mankind repeats itself endlessly, and the power of Art will never quite be enough to save it."

​Dominique Burucoa - Directeur Scène natioale du Sud-Aquitain)

SCAPIN OU LA VRAIE VIE DE GENNARO COSTAGLIOLA 2016

By François Douan / 55 performances / 16 cities / FRANCE

With Jacques Nouard

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"Jacques Nouard summons the great actors of a bygone era—Gabin, Harry Baur, Michel Simon, Vanel…—in a performance of breathtaking precision. He inhabits the stage, a narrow wooden jetty, with such mastery that it takes on the scale of an entire world, bathed in Yannick Anche’s subtle lighting—Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro, the rawness of Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters. The whole is delicately aged, enriched by Hervé Rigaud’s sound design, which gently frames the setting and its time period. A little gem, masterfully orchestrated by Kristian Frédric." 
Maryvonne Colombani – Zibeline

ANDROMAQUE 10-43 - 2013-2014

Adaptation de François Douan, Lionel Chiuch, Kristian Frédric /

54 performances / SWITZERLAND - FRANCE - CANADA

With Denis Lavant, Monica Budde, Jeanne De Mont, Frédéric Landenberg, Ivan Morane, Arnaud Binard

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"What stands out most in this Andromaque 10-43 is the striking contemporary relevance that adorns the classical tragedy. Not only does Racine withstand the artifices of our time, but he subjugates them to his depth, to the lucid gaze he casts upon humanity. Likewise, amid the overwhelming flood of video images, the presence of the actors (with Denis Lavant delivering a gripping Pyrrhus) brings us back to the physicality of the body, to a dimension of reality that, in its own way, asserts the value of life and our deepest impulses."
Manuel Piolat Soleymat - LA TERRASSE.

JAZ - 2010-2011

By Koffi Kwahulé - 60 performances - FRANCE - SWITZERLAND - CANADA

"A hard-hitting solo with an aesthetic both refined and radical, confronting the audience with the barbarity and inhumanity of which human beings are capable."
LA PRESSE MONTRÉAL

"A fascinating piece, dense and oppressively truthful."
LE QUATRIÈME MONTRÉAL

BIG SHOOT - 2005-2007

By Koffi Kwahulé / 66 performances / FRANCE - CANADA

With Daniel Parent and Sébastien Ricard


"(…) Surrounded by Quebec-based designers, Kristian Frédric delivers an almost perfect creation—a finely crafted timepiece, a machine with impeccably oiled gears. The actor direction achieves a rare level of rigor and precision. Few directors here manage—or even aspire—to such exactitude. Sébastien Ricard has rarely been so restrained, Daniel Parent so sardonic (…)”
Christian Saint-Pierre - LE VOIR – Montréal

YA BASTA 2003-2004

Adaptation from the texts of Jean Pierre Siméon / 21 performances / FRANCE - LUXEMBOURG


"From the very first moments of the performance, we are shaken, confronted: a sonic shock—aggressive, unsettling—of deafening music. A visual shock as the set suddenly erupts from the void of the stage: a brutally realistic scene of despair, a crumbling building in the middle of nowhere, shrouded in perpetual mist. A human shock, with strikingly contrasted characters, each defined by their attire—a patient hooked up to an IV, a 'Siberian' wrapped in a heavy coat, a veiled bride, a nearly bare dancer—or by the stark insistence of their exaggerated makeup."
Stéphane Gilbart - LA VOIX DU LUXEMBOURG

LA NUIT JUSTE AVANT LES FÔRETS 2000 à 2004

By Bernard Marie Koltès / 96 performances / FRANCE - CANADA - POLAND - CZECH REPUBLIC

With Denis Lavant


"Infused with Koltès’ razor-sharp text, Denis Lavant embodies this dark poetry. He is the miraculous actor, 'the angel in the midst of this chaos,' who, up to the final stripped-down image—inspired by a sculpture by Ousmane Sow—sends shivers through the entire audience."
Frédérique Brehaut - LA MAINE LIBRE

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