L'Addition

Première: July 2023, Festival d’Avignon (FR)
The performance lasts 70 min and has no intermission.
Surtitles: Slovene

Director Tim Etchells
Text by Tim Etchells with Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
Lighting designer Alex Fernandes
Composer and Sound designer Graeme Miller
Producer Khenory Sok
Tour manager Jessica Barber
Technical manager Enrico Aurigemma

Devised and performed by Bertrand Lesca, Nasi Voutsas

This production is an English version of the French production commissioned by Festival d’Avignon in 2023.

Co-Production original version Grrranit Scène nationale de Belfort, Centre culturel André Malraux, Scène nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Théâtre de la Manufacture CDN Nancy Lorraine, CCAS, Théâtre Silvia Monfort , La Vignette Scène conventionnée Université Paul-Valéry , Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune,Théâtre Cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi, Théâtre Alibi (FR)

Residencies Centre social Espace Pluriel-salle de la Barbière (FR), The Coronet Theatre (UK), Battersea Arts Centre (UK), Toynbee Studios (UK)
International touring co-produced by Here and Now – Performance Created in England

Two performers armed with (or trapped in) a single scene – a customer orders a drink from a waiter. And then things go awry. Played again and again, the scene starts spinning out of control. Nightmarish spiral or grotesque farce? Roles flip back and forth. Who’s serving and who’s being served? 

Directed by Forced Entertainment artistic director Tim Etchells and created with the brilliant performance duo Bert and Nasi, L’Addition orchestrates a complex, hilarious and explosive performance from simple materials. Together, the three of them play with the mechanisms of theatre as much as with power relationships – but in the end, someone has to pay the bill.