« We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. »

William Shakespeare
 

Play theater is play to believe or to make others believe that one is another self.
The theater, which is a form of play, only starts when individuals are involved as characters in the space of fiction.

A pedagogy that aims, through games, exercises, improvisations, dramatic texts, game situations, to tell stories. Players finally discover a singular space where imagination and creativity can be free.

- Play is doing: before saying or learn a text, the player performs actions.
- Play is to advance what is already there: in fact, realize a return on the game or the  stage proposed to advance it and come to a controlled game.
- Play is experiencing pleasure and interest: Pleasure to be moved, to laugh or cry.
- Play is also being respectful, caring on the part of the viewer.

 Jérémie teaches at Sciences-Po Paris, ESJ (School of Journalism), EHESS, Théâtre de la Ville de Paris and for Candela compagny. He also provides public oral expression classes for firms and for individual.

Acting is the search of the meeting with the other, how to tell him/her a stonning story. Theatre is a place where we can share a commun world, a commun dream. Here, we can touch to the intimacy of each of us.

During the last decade, Jérémie Kalil has played with different troups. Molière, Musset, La Fontaine, Noelle Renaude, Wouajdi Mouawad or Sergi Belbel are the authors he played more. He participated to Festival off d'Avignon in 2008-2010 and won with Nagananda's Company, the Paris Jeunes Talents price in 2007.

As a director and set design assistant, Jérémie Kalil has also worked for several projects and directed few plays with his students.
Here are some examples and photos of his work.

A tous ceux qui, Noëlle Renaude - Nagananda Company
Director : Cécile Fraisse
36 voices, interpretated by 6 actors. From 4-100 years they tell a family reunion, a summer day in the country in the late 40s. They are there, the Oscur, Moullard, Gloton, Faitard and collateral branches, around a banquet. They celebrate a new peace, they are enthusiastic about the future, they settle old scores, they forget the horror they remember the dead, they drink and they eat, they try to seal cracks ... Lives of ordinary men punctuated by words, simple existences inventories where the miseries and joys are debated daily , are the sounds of intimacy that invites us this piece of Noëlle Renaude.

Quand nous nous réveillons d'entre les morts, Henrik Ibsen -  Compagnie 1
Director : Erwan Coedelo
Rubek, famous sculptor, returns with his girlfriend, Maya, Norway, in his native country, after years of absence. A being in quest itself and its past. There end up in an inn at the foot of a mountain, his muse, Iren , the woman who had " dictated " his masterpiece, a sculpture inspired by the soul and the nakedness of this eternal beloved. They then devote themselves both to a long walk to the top of the mountain, towards life, towards the resurrection. Inspired by No Theater, Compagnie 1 lead the characters at the foot of an "nonplace" where Rubek understand his state of "undead". It will attempt to relive his life fully.

Chop Suey, Françoise Cadol
Director: Valia Boulay
Assistant Director : Jérémie Kalil
From the painting of Edward Hopper : or how come alive before our eyes the four characters sitting in a bar in Chicago in 1930 in a deep depression. A play whose atmosphere is reminiscent of Tennessee Williams. Chop Suey is the story of three women and one man who will realize that they are the characters of a painting and someone looks at them: a spectator. Chop Suey is also the story of a look. The look of the spectator who enters the canvas and makes the canvas his mental landscape. Between these realities, there is a bridge. A bridge on which laws are going to play and wants of each other.
 

Jérémie Kalil is attracted to photography since he was a kid. He is self-educated but inspired by several influences: Henri CartierBresson, Michael Kenna, Irving Penn, Brassaï etc.  His experience in theatre guides him to built scenographic images.

The pictures  tries to catch specific details, mouvements and moments of life to create a personnal vision of everyday life.

Museums, streets view, portraits, landscape, Jérémie collects the little things to show fragments of one soul.

Jérémie Kalil is attracted to photography since he was a kid. He is self-educated but inspired by several influences: Henri CartierBresson, Michael Kenna, Irving Penn, Brassaï etc.  His experience in theatre guides him to built scenographic images.

The pictures  tries to catch specific details, mouvements and moments of life to create a personnal vision of everyday life.

Museums, streets view, portraits, landscape from the world, Jérémie collects the little things to show fragments of one soul.