Timetable
Thursday, May 21th, 2026 from 20:00 to 21:30
Festival
Theater - A voracious shadow
Theater - A voracious shadow
May 21st 2026
SARREGUEMINES
Scène de l'Hôtel de Ville Rue du Maire Massing
Christophe Raynaud
Christophe Raynaud
Christophe Raynaud
Christophe Raynaud
Christophe Raynaud
On stage, two treadmills, two men in climbing harnesses and, in the center, a mirror that divides the space like a wall.
With few resources, Argentinian director Mariano Pensotti tells the story in Une Ombre vorace of a mountaineer who, at the end of his career, decides to embark on the same expedition to the summit of Annapurna in Nepal on which his father lost his life thirty years earlier. On the other side of the wall, an actor of a certain age is about to play the mountaineer in a film adaptation of this adventure, while himself being in conflict with his role as father. The levels of the story overlap.
With great skill, Mariano Pensotti, founder of the Argentinian collective Grupo Marea, interweaves the biographies of two men at a turning point in their careers to create a captivating piece of theater that explores the boundaries between reality and fiction.
In an interview, the director explains that his sources of inspiration for Une Ombre vorace are 19th-century novels by authors such as Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal and Leo Tolstoy. The Argentinian reveals himself to be a master of simultaneity and complex narration: the monologues of the two protagonists answer each other and overlap, forming a captivating tale about man's relationship with nature and climate change, about the mid-life crisis, but also about fatherhood and the possibility of change. Staying in the Alpine universe: Like a glacier which, as it melts, reveals the bodies of the disappeared, Mariano Pensotti reveals, layer after layer, the very material from which stories are made.
In French with German surtitles
With few resources, Argentinian director Mariano Pensotti tells the story in Une Ombre vorace of a mountaineer who, at the end of his career, decides to embark on the same expedition to the summit of Annapurna in Nepal on which his father lost his life thirty years earlier. On the other side of the wall, an actor of a certain age is about to play the mountaineer in a film adaptation of this adventure, while himself being in conflict with his role as father. The levels of the story overlap.
With great skill, Mariano Pensotti, founder of the Argentinian collective Grupo Marea, interweaves the biographies of two men at a turning point in their careers to create a captivating piece of theater that explores the boundaries between reality and fiction.
In an interview, the director explains that his sources of inspiration for Une Ombre vorace are 19th-century novels by authors such as Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal and Leo Tolstoy. The Argentinian reveals himself to be a master of simultaneity and complex narration: the monologues of the two protagonists answer each other and overlap, forming a captivating tale about man's relationship with nature and climate change, about the mid-life crisis, but also about fatherhood and the possibility of change. Staying in the Alpine universe: Like a glacier which, as it melts, reveals the bodies of the disappeared, Mariano Pensotti reveals, layer after layer, the very material from which stories are made.
In French with German surtitles
Practical information
Festival for all ages in SARREGUEMINES .
Details
Festival
Suitable for For all ages
Prices
Adult : 20 € Child : 15 €
Christophe Raynaud
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Theater - A voracious shadow
- https://www.sarreguemines.fr
- culture@mairie-sarreguemines.fr
- 03 87 98 93 58
- Scène de l'Hôtel de Ville2 rue du Maire Massing57200 SARREGUEMINES
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