Seuls en Scène 2025 presents State of the French Contemporary Stage with Élios Noël & Cédric Eeckhout

Seuls en Scène 2025 presents a conversation with Élios Noël and Cédric Eeckhout on the state of the French contemporary stage. Noël and Eeckhout will share their experience working in the 2010s and 2020s with major figures in French and European theater such as Caroline Guiela Nguyen, Thomas Ostermeier, and David Geselson.

Admission

The conversation is free and open to the public; no tickets required.

Event Details

The conversation will be in French. Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes.

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Accessibility

The event will take place in an accessible venue. The conversation will be in French.

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About the Artists

Photo credit: Natacha Lamblin

Cédric Eeckhout has worked as an actor on stage with Anne-Cécile Vandalem, Falk Richter (Rausch, Play loud), Thomas Ostermeier (La mouette, Retour à Reims), Christiane Jatahy (Ithaque), Gaia Saitta (Fear and Desire), Sanja Mitrovic (do you still love me), Mikaël Serre (les enfants du soleil) and, most recently, Mariano Pensotti (Ombre Vorace), among others. He has worked in cinema with artists including Rithy Panh, Laurent Tirard, Thomas Vinterberg and others. Héritage is his second show as author and director, following The Quest, an English-language stand-up about the disintegration of Europe, in which his actual mother accompanied him on stage for the first time. The Quest premiered in Belgium and was performed in Spain, Sweden, Romania, Hungary. He is also the director of the documentary Jo, which follows his mother’s life during their first creation when she was caring for her husband, who was living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Photo courtesy Elios Noël

Elios Noël trained at the TNB school in Rennes and performed several times under the direction of Stanislas Nordey. He also appeared in shows by Éléonore Weber and Patricia Allio. Noël has worked with the companies Lumière d’août and La nuit surprise par le jour and with Myriam Marzouki, Christine Letailleur, Pascal Kirsch, David Geselson, Nicolas Stemann, Jeanne Desoubeaux, and Caroline Guiela Nguyen. He has appeared in Je m’appelle Vanessa by Laurent Quinton; Rendre une vie vivable n’a rien d’une question vaine at the 2007 Avignon Festival and 2012 in Primer mundo; Fraternity-Fantastic Tale at the 2021 Avignon Festival; and Neanderthal at the 2023 Avignon Festival, among others. In addition, Noël has recorded numerous fictions for France Culture with Cedric Aussir and has appeared in films by Justine Triet, Melisa Godet, Aurélia Hollart, Camille Fleury and Pierre-Emmanuel Fillet.