A l'affiche de la Manufacture des Abbesses cet automne, "Thomas Chagrin" une pièce de Will Eno dans une adaptation de Jean-Marie Besset.
"Thomas Chagrin" se présente sous la forme d'un monologue-soliloques d'une écriture à la fois dense et sculptée au scalpel d'un jeune homme saisi par la difficulté d'être au monde
Nous avons brièvement croisé Will Eno, de passage à Paris pour la première française de cette pîèce et il a accepté de répondre à quelques questions par mail que nous espérons bien compléter par une interview live lors de son prochain séjour parisien.
When and why did you started to write and essentially plays ?
Will Eno : I started writing plays about ten years ago. I read a lot of Beckett and Shakespeare and was drawn to the theatre for reasons that I can only describe as mysterious.
What are the thematics that you feel like important or essential today to investigate for theater ?
Will Eno : I think the questions today are the same as they always were. We don't know what happens to you when you die, so, in some very real way, we don't know what happens to you when you're born. So, life is very mysterious. I think theatre can, if not explain the mystery, at least make the mystery more apparent.
Thom Pain is looks like petrified in a moment of his life and, like a psychotic, always the same events of the past but in which there are no really affect but the memory not of the happy moment but the memory when the happiness is not any more. Do you are interested by these moments of human life where the failures are essential and revealing, perhaps for the character but also for the social life ?
Will Eno : I have many happy memories and they are very important to me. But, I believe the philosophers and the old poets when they say that we learn more from the painful memories.
Thom Pain is an archetype of young urban american man ?
Will Eno : I don't know if he is necessarily American, or urban. Icertainly hope that he represents Modern Man, in some way, if that doesnot seem too ambitious.
Did you come everytime in France or Europe to see how your plays are adapted and understood ?
Will Eno : I have not been to see too many foreign productions. I was and am very excited about this one, because I know Jean-Marie and I think he is a great translator and writer.
What are your professional relationship with the directors ? Do you go the repetitions or prefer to discover the final work ? Will you want to be the director of your own plays ?
Will Eno : I like directors and I generally prefer to go to rehearsals. I do not think that I would make a good director of my own work, though I have done it several times with some short plays and have enjoyed it a lot.
What are your favourite playwriters and those who influenced you ?
Will Eno : I like Don De Lillo's plays, as well as his novels. Edward Albee, too. Beckett, too. Howard Barker, too.
You are very successfull so is it easy to write again after to receive so much gratitude from the public and especially from the people of theater ?
Will Eno : It is really hard to write a play and I think it gets harder as you get older, because you have more versions of yourself behind you, there is more of yourself that you must escape from. And that's the real problem. The fact of having had some success or not had some success is not as big a problem.
In the web Ifind this recipe to write a “will eno play”.What do you think about it ?
Will Eno : I guess this person doesn't like my work.
What are your projects of writing ?
Will Eno : I have a play called "Oh, the Humanity," that just opened in New York. That was taking a lot of my time and energy but now it's open and running. I am currently working on a new play.
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