The Companion
One story, two versions
With Abbi Patrix
for the solo version
With Abbi Patrix
and Jean-François Vrod on the violin
for the musical version
1h15 minutes
Concept and adaptation
Abbi Patrix
Set design
Sam Mary
Creation 2005
English version first performed in The Pit Theatre - Barbican Centre - London - October 2005
Coproduction
Compagnie du Cercle,
La Maison du Conte in Chevilly-Larue
Extracts from the press review :
The Times
Abbi Patrix is a commanding presence with a powerful voice and an array of expression that mysteriously blends the inscrutable with the strongly emotional. With The Companion he leads the audience - and himself - into myth by beginning with his own story (…).It is this blend of the personal and the traditional that makes Patrix’s work so effective.
Read the article in the press review
Le Parisien
By confronting us with the characters and the landscapes of this beautiful, cold and violent tale, Abbi Patrix places us at the heart of an essential space, where man is both a giver and a receiver.
Here man can question, if only for a moment, both his dreams and his choices.
Ouest France
Abbi Patrix performs with music, with an incredible ease and a lovely form of humor. Using just words, he is able to set the scene and the context for his stories. … A magician of the spoken word, he juggles with his text, its meaning, and its music : without holding back, he bathes his audience in the freshness of their souls as children, and carries us off on a journey between laughter and emotion.
Sud Ouest
Abbi Patrix, a generous and humorous performer, with merely the help of a tambourine and bells on his ankles, conveys with his words a whole vast and voluptuous world….
Full of energy, his eyes full of sparkle, and enlivened by the sheer pleasure of telling his tale, he constructs real pieces of anthology.
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