ELENA - Theater Club

Event reserved for registrants at the Cub Théâtre
 October 5, 2023, 8:00 p.m.
 Centaur Theater, 4 Grand-Rue, 1660 Luxembourg
 After the success of Breaking the Waves (2019), Myriam Muller, associate artist at the Théâtres de la Ville, is undertaking a new adaptation of a film script: Elena, based on the screenplay by Oleg Neguine and Andrei Zvyagintsev. She has surrounded herself with a renowned cast from Luxembourg, France and Belgium.
 The story revolves around its eponymous character: Elena is the second wife of Vladimir, a wealthy retiree, who met her ten years earlier when he was hospitalized and she was his nurse. Their union is based on a relationship of servility and an exchange of services. Elena acts as a wife, a maid, a cook for Vladimir, who in turn offers her stability and a life without material worries. But when Elena's son, Frank, finds himself in financial difficulties, Vladimir ignores his pleas. Elena's grandson, Sacha, failing at school, hangs out with thugs. Frank encourages Elena to ask her wealthy husband for money to enroll Sacha in a private school, but Vladimir refuses. Elena then concocts a plan to find the money despite everything.

 By mixing up subjects such as love (man-woman, mother-child) and codependency, the alienation of women, social determinism, ancestral confrontations between the sexes and between generations, Elena examines human relationships in an implacable way by scrutinizing the characters through their actions alone. She takes a lucid and current look at the dysfunctions of an individualistic society, driven by money and personal comfort. As in her previous productions, Myriam Muller relies on a performance that mixes video, live music and theater to express the powerfully archaic emotions of the subject.