Edmond Dumas Dantès - An extraordinary life of the Count of Monte Cristo
Oh the beautiful days! 2024
Concert dessininé
With Alfred and Fred Nevché.
Oh les beaux jours ! has been dreaming of this show for several years, continuing its rereading of literary classics in the form of a drawn concert (we remember the adaptation of Claude McKay’s Banjo, George Orwell’s 1984, Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories…). After several months of creative work together, singer-songwriter Fred Nevché and cartoonist Alfred combine their talented universes to share with us the life and work of the great Alexandre Dumas, a major figure in 19th-century French literature. His Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo may have made him famous, but he was also the author of a much wider body of work and correspondence, into which Fred Nevché and Alfred have immersed themselves passionately. For the life of Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a freed black slave, who was the darling of the Tout-Paris, a prolific novelist, theater director, press owner, tireless traveler and political activist, before suffering several disgraces and bankruptcies, is itself a breathtaking novel!
It’s at Fort Saint-Jean, in an ideal setting to witness some of the key episodes in the adventures of Edmond Dantès – including, of course, his famous escape from the Château d’If – that the two accomplices will officiate, skilfully maintaining, as Dumas did, the grey areas between his life and his work. This “onirico-biographical UFO”, as they so nicely put it, will mix songs and music imbued with electronic poetry that Nevché has written for the occasion, with readings and colorful drawings that Alfred, a master of live drawing, will bring to life before our amazed eyes.
Concert dessiné produced by Compagnie Les Dits sont de là. Coproduced by Oh les beaux jours!
Evening co-produced with Mucem.
Concert dessininé
With Alfred and Fred Nevché.
Oh les beaux jours ! has been dreaming of this show for several years, continuing its rereading of literary classics in the form of a drawn concert (we remember the adaptation of Claude McKay’s Banjo, George Orwell’s 1984, Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories…). After several months of creative work together, singer-songwriter Fred Nevché and cartoonist Alfred combine their talented universes to share with us the life and work of the great Alexandre Dumas, a major figure in 19th-century French literature. His Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo may have made him famous, but he was also the author of a much wider body of work and correspondence, into which Fred Nevché and Alfred have immersed themselves passionately. For the life of Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a freed black slave, who was the darling of the Tout-Paris, a prolific novelist, theater director, press owner, tireless traveler and political activist, before suffering several disgraces and bankruptcies, is itself a breathtaking novel!
It’s at Fort Saint-Jean, in an ideal setting to witness some of the key episodes in the adventures of Edmond Dantès – including, of course, his famous escape from the Château d’If – that the two accomplices will officiate, skilfully maintaining, as Dumas did, the grey areas between his life and his work. This “onirico-biographical UFO”, as they so nicely put it, will mix songs and music imbued with electronic poetry that Nevché has written for the occasion, with readings and colorful drawings that Alfred, a master of live drawing, will bring to life before our amazed eyes.