Sentinelles - Athénée

Text, direction and set design Jean-François SivadierWith Vincent Guédon, Julien Romelard, Samy Zerrouki Artistic collaboration Rachid ZanoudaLighting Jean-Jacques BeaudouinSound design Jean-Louis ImbertLighting design Jean-Jacques BeaudouinGeneral stage management Marion Le Roy, Lionel LecoeurLighting management Chloé BietSound and video management Elric PouillyCostumes Virginie GervaiseChoreographic eye Johanne Saunier 8pm4pm on SundayDuration 2h20 As dissimilar as they are complementary, they support and fight each other in a delicate balancing act.

Through excerpts from Bach, Chopin or Shostakovich, they confront each other with tenderness on the ground of ideas and interpretation.

Carried by three remarkable actors, this sensitive, funny and moving odyssey reveals the secret aspirations that jostle in the heart of every artist.

Sentinelles, written and conceived for three actors, tells the story of three virtuoso pianists who meet in their adolescence and become, overnight, inseparable.

Admitted to a prestigious music school, they will spend three years there, before competing in an international piano competition, after which, for more or less mysterious reasons, they will be separated forever.

As dissimilar as they are complementary, each of the three admiring in the other two what he lacks, the three men will support and fight each other in a delicate balancing act, between their bonds of friendship and their fundamental differences regarding their relationship to the world and the way they practice their art.

The trio's agreements and disagreements draw an initiatory path, at the end of which each has an appointment with himself.

A story as a pretext to question the contrary winds, the violent currents that can confront, agree or merge in the secret relationship that each artist maintains with the world... Sentinelles by Jean-François Sivadier is published by Solitaires Intempestifs (20