1994 Founding of the Théâtre de la Peste association

1997 "J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne" by J.L. Lagarce, A. Vitez theater commission, Aix-en-Provence

1998 "C'est bien, c'est mal", after Brecht, Bernanos, Duras, in the context of the Opening Nights 2 festival, Aix-en-Provence.
Award-winning company

1999 Re-création de "C'est bien, c'est mal" at the Bernardines theater

"Monk alone/Etude n°1" in the context of Les Informelles festival, Bernardines theater, Marseilles and 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence

2000 "Le monde était-il renversé ?" after Franz Kafka, at the A. Vitez theater, Aix-en-Provence

"Le poème de Beyrouth/Etude n°2" by M. Darwich, Bernardines theater, Marseilles and 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence

"Le bruit de la mer/Etude n°3" after M. Duras, Bernardines theater, Marseilles and 3bisF Aix-en-Provence

"Evocation/Etude n°4" after John Cage, Bernardines theater, Marseille

"Le Monde était-il renversé?"

Director : Olivier Saccomano, 28 ans

Assistant (producteur) : Marianne Houspie

Scenery and lights : Philippe Didier

Avec : Pascal Farré, Magali Jacquot, Josette Lanlois, Gilles Le Moher, Sarah Saada, Olivier Saccomano, Gaëtan Vandeplas.

He didn't study theater and had no revelation sitting in the audience.
Quite simply, he once played in a work set up by a friend, "and things went well"
He says laconically.
If there had to be a beginning, that would be it. Olivier Saccomano founded his theater "de la Peste" a few years back while putting together the project of working on the Sophocles' Theban cycle, which opens with the epidemic in the city. An ill of unknown origin, " the symptom of civilization's ills, the plague symbolized the district we were located in, the Panier, built on the burial grounds of plague victims in 1720."

pestiférés de 1720".

 

Afterwards a commission by the Vitez Theater and the selection for Aix-en-Provence's Opening Nights festival accelerated matters. Without ever giving in to the scene's way of doing things. His players? Met through classified ads. And last year, he proposed that the Bernardines theater and the 3bisf move away from conventional modes of production and creation (one a year) to try to do theater all year long. "I wanted to spend a year with a small group of players, doing Etudes in the manner of Chopin; neither an essay nor a work in progress, but an accomplished form of work that would connect the idea of the work to that of the exercise." The result: four creations in a light transportable stage-set, based on works by Monk, Darwich, Duras, John Cage.... " Le monde était-il renversé? " (Was the world upside down?) by Kafka was developed during the hiatus, nourished and exhausted by the Etudes, then recreated the year after.
It is this recreation of three animals' monologues, grappling with a law they would like to surmount and which surpasses them, which will be presented in Sarajevo.