This production is freely inspired by Suréna by Pierre Corneille.

A formal experience for 20 performers.

EURYDICE
You see those I suffer, learn those I fear.
It is enough, O heaven! Let the supreme power
Deliver me into other arms to the eyes of what I love:
Do not condemn me to this new trouble
To see all that I love in another's arms.

(...)
Ah, you redouble too much, by this charming speech,
My hatred for the prince and my fire for the lover;
Let's end it, madam; in this extreme misfortune,
The more I hate, the more I suffer, and suffer as much as I love.

I made you pray not to see me again,
Lord: your presence astonishes my duty;
And that which was my heart's delight,
Can no longer offer me but new torments.
Do you dare to ignore it? And when I see you,
If I must suffer too much, do you suffer less than I?

Shall we suffer less to sigh together?
Go, be content to have seen that I tremble;
And at least for pity of a doubtful triumph,
Do not hazard me any more with shameful sighs.

SURENA
I know what your sight will cost my heart;
But he who seeks to die must seek that which kills.
Madam, the hour approaches, and tomorrow your faith
Makes it your eternal law to forget me:
I have only this day, only this moment of life.
Forgive the love that sacrifices it to you,
And suffer a sigh to exhale at your knees,
For my last joy, a soul all yours.

Musiques : Brian Eno, Fabienne Audéoud, Franz Schubert