Ex

Ex Cie Premiers acts / Marius von Mayenburg / Thibaut Wenger Théâtre + 15 years old Everything is perfect in appearance in this couple. Sybille is a doctor, Daniel works in an architectural firm. They have two children, a house, a comfortable sofa, well-established careers. In short, everything needed to compose the image of a successful life. Until the evening when Franziska, Daniel's ex-girlfriend, arrives at their place in the middle of the night to seek refuge. From this almost classic starting point of the love triangle, Marius von Mayenburg very quickly shifts expectations. Ex is not just the story of a couple threatened by the return of an old lover. It is a fierce closed-door where everyone finds themselves confronted with their choices, their renunciations, their lies, and their stifled desires. The conjugal mechanics break down, words become weapons, everyday phrases turn into accusations, and the evening tips into a spiral of allegations, revelations, and humiliations. In this satirical comedy directed by Thibaut Wenger, black humor rubs shoulders with cruelty. We laugh, often yellow, before the relentlessness of the characters to hurt themselves, to justify themselves, to want to be right. But behind the violence of the exchanges, a deeper question emerges: what to do when one discovers oneself a prisoner of a life that one may not have really chosen? Mayenburg dissects with formidable precision the couple, social success, parenthood, class relations, and the injunctions that shape our existences. Getting married, having children, buying a house, building a career: so many decisions that can become refuges, but also traps. Here, everyone dreams of leaving, but everyone stays, stuck in their contradictions. Ex stings where it hurts. Under its airs of conjugal satire, the play questions our ability to love, to choose, to tell the truth, and perhaps to start over differently. Crédits Sibylle France Bastoen Daniel Nicolas Luçon Franziska Émilie Maréchal Texte Marius von Mayenburg Traduction Joséphine de Weck Mise on stage Thibaut Wenger Scénographie Boris Dambly Costumes Claire Schirck Création sound Geoffrey Sorgius / Thomas Caillou Coordinatrice of intimacy Nathalie Bremeels Régie general Cristian Gutiérrez Silva Régie plateau Louis Linotte Régie sound Geoffrey Sorgius Création light / Lighting management / Assistant director ljjou Ahoudig Production Compagnie of Premiers Actes Coproduction Compagnie Premiers Acts / Théâtre des Martyrs / La Coop / Shelterprod Avec the support of Fédération Wallonie-Brussels – Service Général of artistic creation – theater direction / COCOF (actors' fund) / Région Grand Est / SPEDIDAM / taxshelter.be / ING / Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Belgian federal. La Compagnie Premiers Actes is subsidized by Région Grand Est. The play is published and represented by L’ARCHE – publisher and theatrical agency.