Doreen

By André Gorz
The traitor, followed by Le vieillissement 
Critique of Enconomic Reason 
Écologica 
Letter to D. 

Other
Le fil rouge de l’écologie, interviews presented by Willy Gianinazzi 
André Gorz : A Life, biographie by Willy Gianinazzi 
André Gorz en personne – by Christophe Fourel 
André Gorz, un penseur pour le 21^e siècle, by Christophe Fourel 
Light years, by James Salter
A Grin Without a cat, by Chris Marker
Les années 68, le temps de la contestation, collective work

Music
And I love her, Brad Mehldau
Swamp girl, Ramsey Lewis trio

« Doreen is the kind of show one doesn’t often see in the theater. (..) What Doreen offers is better than a declaration: it is a portrait of a love, so true that it appears invented, so deftly reinvented that it appears even truer. Listening to the text, it is impossible to tell exactly what came from André Gorz or from David Geselson. And even if one is very familiar with Letter to D., we accept everything, because we know we’re at the theater, and that when theater succeeds it does not reproduce life, but stages it »
Brigitte Salino, Le Monde

« There’s charm and audacity here, conveyed by two moving, ultra-sensitive performers. »
Armelle Héliot, Le Figaro

« Doreen is the title of a marvelous play, the fruit of an examination of the private life of this couple of intellectuals and a literary composition consisting of fragments of the Letter to D. and statements from close friends and family. (…) It seems to me that theater has never come so close to love and death (…) Yet David Geselson’s talent lies in having instilled a great deal of joy in this hour of theater. »
Eve Beauvallet, Libération

« There is a great sensitivity, extreme modesty, and a beautiful violence in this play performed by two magnificent actors. (…) Truffaut used to say that cinema was better than life. The same can be said for this play: it is better than life. It reconciles us with life, does us good and comforts us. »
Marie-José Sirach, L’Humanité

« He proposes an intimate theater that is surprisingly acute in the way it measures political commitment through the couple and the wife’s amused counterpoint. (…) Out of all this, Doreen Keir reappears in her full majesty. Playing her, Laure Mathis is phosphorescently natural. »
Emmanuelle Bouchez, Télérama

« David Geselson and Laure Mathis are infinitely sensitive in their portrayal of this couple confiding in us, starting by telling us about their youth and the first time they met, as often happens during dinners with friends. Using the humor and honesty of their relationship to tame the tragic aspect of the situation, the show constantly avoids sentimentality to take on a great tenderness and bear dry-eyed witness to this serene decision to go freely together in front of death. Heartrending. »
Patrick Sourd, Les Inrockuptibles

« This heartrending show, wildly sensitive and so unusually intelligent, is one of the best things that could happen to public theater in France. »
Joëlle Gayot, France Culture

« André Gorz’s political thought is also in the play. That’s what’s so striking: how this man’s utopia (…) merges with the love story. »
Thierry Fiorile, France info

« This is theater at its most minimal and barest because it sheds its usual trappings. The actors attain a maximum vulnerability, through extreme and incessant concentration. (…) They speak to what is deepest in us, we are like witnesses, neighbors, family members. We are spectators from the inside. »
Jean-Pierre Thibaudat, Mediapart