La Blessure Et La Soif - Avec Fanny Ardant

La blessure et la soif at Le Toboggan

At Le Toboggan, we welcome audiences into an evening shaped by presence, silence, and the incandescent magnetism of Fanny Ardant. With La blessure et la soif, our stage becomes a chamber for heightened listening, where the grain of a voice and the precision of a breath carry as much drama as any grand set. We have prepared the room to sustain that intimacy: thoughtful sightlines, finely tuned acoustics, and lighting that draws the eye to gesture and nuance. As hosts, we are deeply aware that spectators arrive with a shared curiosity—what happens when a legendary artist meets a text that insists on vulnerability and lucidity? The title signals an encounter with desire and lack, with the ache of memory and the appetite for meaning. Here, Ardant’s craft offers a path: subtle inflections, sculpted silences, and a measured tension that invites the audience to lean in. Our hall responds in kind, allowing the words to hover distinctly and the pauses to resonate like music. It is an experience built not on spectacle but on the cultivated art of attention.

Fanny Ardant, here and now

Presenting Fanny Ardant at Le Toboggan also means honoring the artist’s living momentum. In recent seasons she has continued to alternate between cinema and the stage, embracing collaborations that foreground text, voice, and the delicate architecture of emotion. Her schedule has taken her from film sets to theatres and festivals, where she has shared readings, dialogued with contemporary creators, and returned to the essentials of performance: presence, phrasing, listening. That ongoing research finds a singular focus in La blessure et la soif. The piece draws on her gift for crafting intimacy within vast spaces, for letting language breathe while keeping the audience in a subtle suspense. We have followed her current trajectory closely: the curiosity with which she seeks new partnerships, her appetite for challenging formats, and the generous way she frames encounters with audiences. La blessure et la soif condenses these impulses—neither recital nor conventional play, but a living act of transmission that feels both personal and fiercely communal. By inviting the work to our stage, we affirm the place of literary theatre in our season and celebrate an artist who keeps transforming the very idea of what a stage encounter can be.

Our technical and artistic teams at Le Toboggan have shaped the evening around clarity and proximity. The scenography privileges essential elements, creating a field where light, shadow, and voice compose the dramaturgy moment by moment. We have balanced warmth and precision in the sound to let each consonant ring without fatigue, allowing the audience to catch the finest turn of thought. The hall’s architecture supports that intent: a generous embrace that still feels personal, where even from the back rows one can read a change of gaze. Expect an atmosphere of quiet concentration before the first words, a collective hush that heightens the impact of the opening lines. We ask spectators to take their time in arrival, to settle into the rhythm of the evening, and to let themselves be guided by the delicacy of the performance. For us, La blessure et la soif is more than a title—it is a dramaturgical compass, orienting our choices toward sincerity, sharpness, and care. It stands at the heart of a program that favors living literature and singular voices, and we are proud to offer this moment to our community, here, in the very contours of our stage.