Cie Les Grandes Marées
Les Grandes Marées is a theatrical company founded in 2017, based in Vire in Normandy, directed by Pierre Cuq, and whose project is oriented around 4 founding axes:
• The promotion of contemporary writing (through orders placed with authors or staging of unpublished texts, assistance with publishing, search for residency and funding in writing, linking)
• Multidisciplinarity (more particularly the links that are woven between theater and dance)
• Artistic and cultural education (in schools, associations, or amateurs) for adolescents (middle/high school) and adults
• Projects related to the territory (meeting residents, diversity of audiences, training outside the walls, decentralized tours)
Since 2010, Pierre Cuq has directed Le(s) Joueur(s) after Nikolaï Gogol and Alexandre Pouchkine, L’Enfant Froid by Marius von Mayenburg (co-directed with Sophie Engel), K solo after the dreams of Franz Kafka.
In October 2019 he created Villa Dolorosa, by the German author Rebekka Kricheldorf at the Théâtre 13 / Seine. A vitriol adaptation of The Three Sisters, the play paints the portrait of a European youth who no longer finds meaning in the world. The piece is presented for the first time in France. The show is the winner of the Prix Théâtre 13 / young directors 2019.
In 20/21 he staged Seuil, trained in the classroom (middle/high school) and indoors, writing commission made to the author Marilyn Mattei (Laureate 2020 CNL scholarship and the FADEL / DRAC Normandie device, published by Theater Open in 2022). Seuil deals with the toxic mechanisms of virility and the theme of consent through the example of rites of passage between men.
In 21/22 he will stage Rouge dents, a writing commission made to Pauline Peyrade (2017 Laureate CNL scholarship, published by Solitaires Intempestifs) mixing theater and dance, and dealing with the issues of the female body, the quest for self in the face of the dictatorship of the image, and of savagery. He will stage the play in collaboration with choreographer Jérémy Tran.
