Les Veilleurs
proposed by Théâtre du Beauvaisis - Scène nationale

About the event

EVERY DAY FOR 1 YEAR FROM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 (ONE HOUR AT SUNRISE AND SUNSET)

Become part of an exceptional artistic performance by watching over Beauvais from the top of the Théâtre. We're inviting you to take part in a poetic gesture: for one year, day for day, two people will watch over Beauvais for one hour at sunrise and one hour at sunset. That's 730 people who will take turns during the year, since each person can only keep watch once. Keeping vigil in this way means reconnecting with light and the passing of the seasons. In a world increasingly invaded by the digital and the virtual, come and experience the clouds, the wind, the stars, the light filtering through cumulus clouds and nimbus clouds, and watch as darkness gradually engulfs the world, or, on the contrary, as day breaks and the dawn brightens. In a shelter specially designed by scenographer and designer Benjamin Tovo, you'll be installed in the Theatre's dome, watching Beauvais's urban landscape pulsate to the rhythm of the seasons, and for an hour you'll be in a dialogue with yourself, suspended in time and space, in a parenthesis, an iridescent bubble of your daydreams, your mental landscape. To stay awake is to enter into a secret, gentle relationship with the human beings bustling beneath you, preparing for the slowdown of the coming night, or, on the contrary, entering the thick of the day. Staying awake means reconnecting for an hour
of an hour with the ancestral capacity of human beings to come together to write a story that transcends their narrow finiteness. For the space of an hour, to keep watch is to become an actor in a poetic performance that will go down in the young history of theater as an act of hope and rebirth. We dedicate this edition of Les Veilleurs in Beauvais to Guy d'Hardivillers, who was informed of this initiative, supported it with all his passion and would undoubtedly have been the first Veilleurs.