EMPREINTES
Caen - France
 
Thursday, October 1 - 8pm   THEATRE CENTAR
 
 
Directed by Mederic Legros
 
 
 
Cast: Sandrine de Fontaines, David Fauvel, Stephane Fauvel, Christian Geffroy, Sophie Quenon, Severine Ragaigne 
Light design:  Didier Preaudat 

It is a performance without speech, a theatre of silence, a blend of drama and movement. Characters with no names and no past meet together in a space which they are going to fill with objects and their obsessions.  

With Empreintes, Mederic Legro and his company of actors fill, explore and complement the space of their theatre with invisible traces. Those traces have the following names: scar, memory, desire, flaw…A precise theatre where the lights provide this choreographic piece with the necessary power of an already innate aesthetics.  

…The theatre of Mederic Legros breaks the tradition of a theatre where one can observe a beginning or an end and he starts the performance where it is, i.e. all over the place. That is, in everyday life, a life that makes no sense at all. That is, at the beginning of the performance. With Empreintes, the play follows an altogether alienated ritual which is close to the bizarre…Characters with no name and no past meet in a space and one is not certain whether it is a precise place. Maybe a shelter or a refuge. 

There, the prisoners or the refugees, that is the artists of Empreintes perform various movements based on their memories. With these approximate, yearned for or awkward movements they fill the space with objects and their obsessions. Flowers, windows, suit cases, a record player…    OUEST-FRANCE Magazine