Two performers armed with (or trapped in) a single scene – a customer orders a drink from a waiter. And then things go awry.

Played again and again, the events of this stock-situation roll repeatedly with nonstop dialogue or in absolute silence and the scene starts spinning out of control. Nightmarish spiral or grotesque farce? Roles and relationships of power flip back and forth, to the point that we no longer know who’s the victim and who’s the bully, who’s serving and who’s being served.

Directed by Forced Entertainment artistic director Tim Etchells, and created with the brilliant performance duo Bert and Nasi, L’Addition orchestrates a complex hilarious and explosive performance from simple materials. Together, the three of them play with the mechanisms of theatre as much as with power relationships — but in the end, someone has to pay the bill.

CREDITS

L’Addition is a Tim Etchells and Bert & Nasi production
Director Tim Etchells
Text Tim Etchells with Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
Devised and performed by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
Lighting Design Alex Fernandes
Composer & Sound Design Graeme Miller

Original production by Festival d’Avignon in 2023. 

Co-production original version GRRRANIT Scène nationale de Belfort, Centre culturel André Malraux Scène nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Théâtre de la Manufacture CDN Nancy Lorraine, CCAS les activités sociales de l’énergie, le Théâtre Silvia Monfort (Paris), La Vignette Scène conventionnée Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier), Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune (Aix-en-Provence), Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national art et création pour la diversité linguistique, Théâtre Alibi (Bastia), The Coronet Theatre (London)

English language version produced by Eileen Evans at Forced Entertainment and Khenory Sok at Bert & Nasi.