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Two Armenians are trying to start a family and forget the genocide in the New York of the 30s.
The first part of the American Richard Kalinoski, directed by Irina Brook, crowned in 2001 by five Molière.

In New York in the 30s. Aram, a young Armenian immigrant, photographer, has decided to found a family that will replace the one he lost during the genocide. He brought Seta, an Armenian orphan of 15 years selected from a photograph, and he does his wife. Seta but can not be pregnant ... Blunders, injuries - they will long to speak - in awe of the freedom and comfort of American life: the show runs their life together in tabular form with great tenderness and humor. The atmosphere is nostalgic and sweet as an album of memories. In the background, we perceive the drama Armenian, whose shade the daily trauma.

A beast on the moon is the first piece of the American author Richard Kalinoski. It was mounted by Irina Brook in English in London, then in French in Bobigny, and finally in winter 2000 at the Theatre of the moving works in Paris. The piece has been recreated and filmed the MC93 Bobigny in August 2001.
A beast on the moon has won several awards in the U.S.. The show in its French version received five Molière 2001: Best Director, Best Play directory, Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Simon Abkarian) and best actress (Corinne Jaber).

Testimonials Spectator

Simon, Corinne, Beppe and you the little boy, I noticed your expression so peculiar when you hailed the end of the performance I attended that night. I expected you to savor this moment the joy of receiving a demonstration of joy shared by the public, who applauded warmly. Being myself an amateur actress, I know how much that time can give inner jubilation, and I saw him often intensely on one side or the other stage. That evening, however, it seemed that you had stayed a while in an "in-between" beautiful, somewhere between the character and the actor ... I then thought that the weight of your characters and their story was still being felt on your shoulders, and you had a little trouble to leave. And then it occurred to me that perhaps you were just surprised, even disturbed, to give such an unanimous approval of the public. But if you knew all that I received from you in less than half past one!
I discovered you through the story of a couple, told by an old man with kindness and good nature, a couple who, by the work of his memory, he has revived, then standing back, but not s erase never completely, as not to expose the public too directly to the intensity of these memories. I made the acquaintance of this man and this woman, only survivors of their families, decimated during the genocide of the Armenian people, and trying to rebuild a new life in a new country as husband and wife. I first saw these two characters react very differently to the same misfortune: he, with an overriding desire to reconstruct his past identically annihilated, having devised a plan for this unwavering in which he imposes on his wife role of the progenitor, she, so young, full of freshness, spontaneity and energy of life invincible, yet I fear that at the beginning they are quickly silenced by the authority of husband. And then their lives every day took place under my eyes and I saw them gradually go a long and difficult path, punctuated by the hopes of pregnancy disappointed and photographs taken by the husband as to keep trace of the execution of his plan or for fear of forgetting. I finally saw tolerance and tenderness born in the heart of this man, with the acceptance of a certain happiness that has come into his home where he did not expect the form of a Italian small dirty and ragged, collected by his wife. I understood then that this little boy was none other than our narrator, and through these moments of life he no longer had to worry about forgetting.
Irina, I like as you have show me so simply but with great strength and great emotion the long journey your characters, since the first meeting of the body to the meeting of souls, and I can still see the final image of these three faces together at last turning to the public, rather than towards the objective of the camera, and suddenly appearing to go to each of us through time. I left that night telling me that definitely is more work by our memory - individual and collective - rather than the physical implementation, we accomplish great things.

Anne Rougee

How to design life or simply live when you're lone survivor of a family of human folly, wishing to exterminate a people, destroyed? At this painful issue a beast on the moon tries to respond with force and intensity, describing the intimacy of a couple each of whom is a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The husband and wife experience their pain in opposite ways. He, overwhelmed me: it lives only in the hope of "change", recreating his family exterminated by having beautiful children! His dream will it be achieved? His suffering is indescribable and impossible to live until he reveal what he saw the day her family was exterminated. She embodies the joy and the desire to live and sent me his cheerfulness and hope. His desire to live and live well despite the tragedies she experienced gave me a great lesson in life and allowed me (for some time, most likely) to me refocus on core values. The actors play not only the room they live. And my excitement may have been the greatest at their salvation because their faces do not breathe the joy of having played a magnificent work, but the solemnity of those who convey the horror! Therefore, over a play he is a true testimony.

Sandrine Grinholtz

The show begins in darkness. Softly, somewhere behind the scenes, I see two faces that remind me a photo of a couple who comes from afar, a sort of icon. The image lasts a moment but a song evokes a lifetime, and even the history of a people and disappears. Then a figure appears to us to tell the story of a genocide, the Armenians in 1915 genocide that everyone wanted to erase but the characters in the play of Kalinoski revive. I do not know yet who is this narrator who remains onstage throughout the piece and subsequently take an important role for the couple.
Aram is a representative of the first generation of Armenian refugees in the United States. Simon Abkarian has built her character by adding Aram throughout the piece of psychological detail touches, such as brief glances to the audience. He touched so deep inside me that I am the spectator. It introduces for the first time his wife Seta home. Seta, played by Corinne Jaber, seems still a child and I was delighted with his laughter and freshness. Aram was selected from a photo in an orphanage a lot of Istanbul sent him. Already, the differences between these two people are being felt: he older, reserved, returning to his new role as an ordinary American and anxious to form his home; she young, smiling and thinking only chance she has had to escape the massacres. These two people from different social backgrounds are now together in a foreign country, both orphans, both survivors, both witnessed unimaginable horrors. They show their desire to erase their memories, by creating him home, enjoying her life and everything that makes us laugh. Scene after scene I am the witness of their daily life that often makes me smile, but also their difficulties to erase the past, their pride to succeed in a new world and learning to live together.
Aram, professional photographer who captures every moment of happiness with his wife. It keeps well visible permanently a large photo of his family massacred somewhere in the Ottoman Empire. This photo is a central enigma of the coin: heads are cut and those of Aram and Seta replace those of father and mother. Seta is haunted by this picture-I was also with her. Aram is the desire to fill these holes in the picture, but Seta is sterile. Tensions will be high on the problem of sterility of Seta and scenes of laughter give way to scenes of conflict that sometimes even become unbearable. Meanwhile Vincent takes a street boy, also an orphan. Seta care of him for finally adopted after a moment's hesitation on the part of Syria. The narrator of the beginning of this story is Vincent in adulthood.
The scene where Aram unlocks when finally revealed the story of his family massacred and he is the only survivor made me cry. I then understood the symbolism of this family picture without a head, but fortunately Vincent brings to the end that hope to the future which seems to need Aram and Seta.

Etvarta Sarkissian

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Genre: Theatre
Directed by: Irina Brook
Cast: Simon Abkarian, Corinne Jaber, Guy Touraille and alternate (kids): Raphaël Fuchs, William Touil, Antonin Hoang
Translation: Daniel Loyaza
Decor: Noelle Ginefri
Costumes: Noelle Ginefri, Jocelyne Lucas
Light: Pascal Merat
Duration: 1 hour (s) and 35 minute (s)

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"A Beast on the Moon" by Richard Kalinoski, along with five trophies the great victor of the 15th Night of Moliere, theater festival in France held Monday evening at the Theatre Marigny in Paris before the cameras of France 2.

Nominated seven times, the text is "an intrusion into the privacy of a couple of survivors of the Armenian genocide" has collected Molières in five categories: best play of creation, better adapter Daniel Loayza, best director Irina Brook ( Peter Brook's daughter), best actor and best actress Simon Abkarian Corinne Jaber.

Simon Abkarian held in his speech to thank the deputies and senators who voted a few months ago the law recognizing the Armenian genocide. The latter, totally unknown to the general public, were nominated in this category with the headliners, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Ludmila Mikael and Catherine Rich. Jean-Claude Brialy who presented to Corinne Jaber's Molière was also declared: "The purpose of such ceremonies is to defend the young talent. Jaber Corinne deserves. Isabelle Adjani does not need a Molière: the public has already given a long time. "

The adventure started four years ago in London of "A Beast on the Moon" is exemplary in other ways. Backed initially by a public institution, the House of Culture in Bobigny, where the piece was created, then by Theatre Vidy Lausanne, room, recovery also on tour, is now played for a longer period, thanks to a private theater in Paris. Gérard Maro, Director of the Work: "+ The Beast on the Moon + the public meeting, for it is also a subject, a human voice played by an enthusiastic team and carries a life expectancy".

The Culture Minister Catherine Tasca, attended the ceremony, said for his part told AFP his release: "These people Molières honored that you like and that we admire, the tributes to George Wilson (best actor in a supporting role), Madeleine Robinson and Gabriel Monnet (Molière d'honneur), have been a great moment for the theater. " "These Molières, she added, also emphasize that true communion of the family of public and private theater. There are at this stage of mutual respect and love that radiates."

For the 15th ceremony of Molière, five pieces collected a significant number of appointments: A Beast on the Moon (7 nominations), Becket or the Honour of God, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Directors and One Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 5 each).

The 7 appointments a beast on the moon were:

- Best part of the repertoire
- Best Director: Irina Brook
- Best adapter: Daniel Loayza
- Best actress and theatrical revelation Women: Corinne Jaber
- Best actor and theatrical male Revelation: Simon Abkarian

The topic: The intrusion into the intimacy of a couple of survivors of the Armenian genocide. The little things of everyday life, with the backdrop of the common memory of a painful past that survives in exile.

"Thanks to its simplicity and purity, this little piece has something universal and s'indémodable. As agents of the theater, it gives us a great opportunity to search for the Essence. Behind this text so accurate lies a big farce and a great truth: the possibility of real contact between humans. And it is in these moments of connection between audience and actor, between the actor and his character, between fiction and the life we say yes. That's why we do this work ... "

Irina Brook

Currently at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre in Paris.

The winners of the 15th Night of Moliere, theater festival in France, is as follows in seventeen categories:
Best Actress: Corinne Jaber ("A Beast on the Moon" by Richard Kalinoski)
Best Actor: Simon Abkarian ("A Beast on the Moon")
Best piece of creation: "The Directors" by Daniel Besse
Best part of the directory: "A Beast on the Moon"
Best director: Irina Brook ("A Beast on the Moon")
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Annick Alane ("Cat on A Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: George Wilson ("A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Female Newcomer: Barbara Schulz ("Happy Easter" by Jean Poiret)
Male Newcomer: Edouard Baer ("Tie Club" Fabrice Roger-Lacan)
Best French author Daniel Besse ("Directors")
Best comedy: "Ladies Night" by Anthony Mac Carten, Stephen Sinclair and Jacques Collard
Best adaptation of a play foreign Daniel Loayza ("A Beast on the Moon")
Best musical: "Singing in the Rain" (from the film by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
Best one-man show: Valerie Lemercier
Best Designer and Best Costume Designer: Ezio Toffolutti ("The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Brecht)
Best Lighting: André Diot ("The Caucasian Chalk Circle").
Molières two honorary awards were also a pioneer of dramatic decentralization, the troop leader, director and actor Gabriel Monnet and the actress Madeleine Robinson.

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