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LYON - Les Subsistances (FR) /February 2011 PARIS – Théâtre de la Bastille (FR) /March 2011 NEW-YORK Festival Walls and Bridges (US) /October 2011 Coming soon … TOULOUSE – Théâtre National de Toulouse (FR) /December 2011

NANTES– Le Lieu Unique (FR) /January 2012

VALENCE– La Comédie de Valence (FR) / January 2012 Angoulême – Théâtre d’Angoulême BRUXELLES - Théâtre 140 (BE) /January 2012 Scène Nationale (FR) /February 2012 ALENÇON (FR) December 2, 2013 MONTBELIARD L’Allan (FR) /March 2012

MONTREUIL - Nouveau théâtre de Montreuil (FR) /March2012 Montpellier – Rockstore / Théâtre des SALAMANQUE - Festival Facyl (ES) /June 2012 13 vents (FR) GENEVE - Festival La Bâtie (CH) /September 2012 December 5 and 6, 2013 VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ - La Rose des Vents (FR) /October 2012 ROUEN – Théâtre des 2 Rives (FR) /April 2013 MENDE – Adda Scènes Croisées (FR) /April 2013 BOURGES - Maison de la Culture (FR) /May 2013

2 Nouveau théâtre de Montreuil – centre dramatique national

PLEASE KILL ME

After Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain ’s novel

adaptation, conception and stage direction Mathieu Bauer artistic collaboration and musical adaptation Sylvain Cartigny video Stéphane Lavoix lighting design Jean-Marc Skatchko

sound Dominique Bataille

with Matthias Girbig and Kate Strong

drums Mathieu Bauer

sampler, bass Lazare Boghossian

bass guitar Sylvain Cartigny

First production by Sentimental Bourreau, Les Subsistances (Lyon), with the support of Spedidam . Rerun production by Nouveau théâtre de Montreuil centre dramatique national.

With the kind authorization of Riverside Literary Agency Duration: 1h25 VIDEO CLIP : HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=KFYD_VUOLE8

The show is available for touring in 2013/2014/2015 In French or English

Tour contact Nathalie Remy [email protected] 00 33 (0)1 48 70 48 95

3 Nouveau théâtre de Montreuil – centre dramatique national

« Rock’n’roll is so great that people should die for it. »

This statement by Lou Reed, taken from Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil and Gilian McCain’s oral history – encapsulates what is at stake in this performance, which follows the tracks of , Jim Morrison Richard Hell, Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Sid Vicious, Stable Star and Billy Murcia.

Rock ‘n’ Roll – an old history still very much alive today – is both the expression of a Dionysian impulse and of a teenager’s joyful rebellion. Fueled with anecdotes from McNeil and McCain’s book, which are at times amusing and at times frightening, the play delves into the punk movement through New York’s CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City Club. It turns rock and punk music inside out, revealing the life of the protagonists with surprising intimacy – an extravagant life filled with music, , humour and massive amounts of drugs – sometimes leading to overdoses – not to mention the © Pierre Gro sbois trials and tribulations that go with living in the margins.

But what is most striking in these more or less famous heroes of Rock ‘n Roll – and indeed, at the time, many were far from famous –, is their freedom and creativity.

Mathieu Bauer is in no way trying to recreate a punk concert, which would be an impossible venture. Instead, he brings to the stage what is most crucial to him, thrilled as he is by the tormented lives of the musicians, however known they may be.

ROCK THEATRE

A drummer by training, Mathieu Bauer became interested in theater by way of music. Both arts intertwine in his practice, as he doesn’t view life without one or the other.

Being part of a generation fascinated with the dreams and excesses of the 1970s, he has of course read Please Kill Me , the oral history of the Gods of punk written by Legs McNeil and