Educational project based on the play “Juste un homme, avec un fusil” by Godefroy Gordet (Compagnie Le Barbanchu)

The principle of feedback is defined as “a return of experience”, “a reaction to an event”. It involves giving feedback to a person or a team carrying out an action, while developing critical and analytical thinking.

Over the course of three days of “sensitive feedback”, a first group of young people was invited to discover the dramaturgical dimension of a spectacular creation, under the guidance of director Godefroy Gordet and actor Romain Ravenel, while a second group was invited to discover the scenographic dimension of the same creation, under the guidance of visual artist Éric Chapuis and video artist Guillaume Walle.

Each day was divided into two phases: the first, in the morning, is called the observatory, where the young people discovered a directed rehearsal based on the text and its interpretation. The second phase, in the afternoon, is known as the workshop, where the young people were invited to put their observations into practice through exercises, during which they could tackle the themes observed in the morning, with a practical approach to the notions of space, interpretation and physicality that are essential on a theatre stage, for the first part, and the notions of the volume of that space, of highlighting the subject and the performer at the centre of a play.

This initiative is based on an initial proposal from the Sommer Foundation, in collaboration with the company Le Barbanchu and in partnership with the Escher Theater and the Escher Jugendhaus.