Two Brothers stages a family duel between two brothers at the time of their father’s death. Through their exchanges, truths long silent emerge, unsuspected faces appear, and contradictory versions of the paternal figure are drawn. This face-to-face does not illuminate the real: it makes it vacillate.
The scenography invokes earth, fog and clouds as so many invisible presences to be brought out on set, drawing around the text a suspended, fragile and moving landscape. A heap of expanded cork represents the sepulchre of the father, a grainy and dark material, close to the ground, like a buried memory that outcrops and can be dispersed.
In this sober setting, the music of Kasper T. Toeplitz acts as a powerful engine of dramaturgy: dense sound wall, crossed by silences, it carries the contained violence of these siblings, its fragmented memory, its shadow beats. Thought as an organic presence, the musical score dialogues closely with play and speech, infiltrating the interstices of the narrative, and amplifying the mute tragedy that is played.
Three short experimentation sessions were held in January and April 2024 at 6b in Saint-Denis and at the Théâtre de l’Opprimé as part of Scènes sur Seine in October 2024. In 2025, the research continued at the Nouveau Gare at the theater in Vitry Sur Seine and then in Cromot in Paris April. Next appointments in November with an opening to professionals on Wednesday 26 November at 3 PM at the Espace Dagues in Louvres (95) and at Cromot in Paris on Friday 28 November at 3 PM at Cromot in Paris
