" USINER" TO MACHINE 
With the Hollander Factory , the company La Rumeur can afford the luxury of doing theatre continuously, of doing only theatre. It provides the scenographer with a workshop, a sound engineer with a studio, an administrator with an office, a theatre company with a rehearsal space. That may seem basic, but it is far from that for most groups that often work only with a postal address. The Factory is a place where the production can be concretely put to the test, exposed to the reactions of an audience. Normally, directors and their groups are obliged to know two years in advance what they are going to put up! These are the rules of production and programming. Whereas, here, the project can be decided on at a much later stage. It is also a place where it is possible to innovate within a tight deadline. The projects always fall in line with a desire, a necessity.
The Factory offers professionals the possibility to arrive at the conclusion of their research, to present their preliminary sketches or finished works. This laboratory for theatre and research is a place where artists are no longer burdened with the constraints of production that weigh on professional teams.
"USINAGE" MACHINING
The act of producing, to create a 'part' with a machine tool, to manufacture in a factory, to work hard...
Located along the railway tracks that stretches beside the Seine to the west of Choisy-le-Roi, the Factory welcomes people who have this trait in common, of manufacturing, working, toiling over a part till it is worn down... Why do these people love heading to the Factory, why is this gathering special? It is a story of fusion, of encounters between people, between people and a place, all in all, an ordinary story. But what is not ordinary is that it is a story that lasts... it is undoubtedly the diversity of the people that get together that forms the bond, the diversity of natures, origins, ages. The place has a past that still perhaps infuses the atmosphere that reigns there. Long before the Patrice Bigel/ La Rumeur company established themselves there to work on their 'parts', a tanning company was working on skins to make leather. In French slang, 'to tan' (tanner) means to annoy, to disturb. Theatre too plays this role. It is often said that it bothers, since it entertains and educates people, to take it a step further to say that it 'disturbs' would not be out of place. There is undoubtedly a fusion that functions and connects theatre to the history of the site. This was a willful choice.
Bernard Bolzer.
With the Hollander Factory , the company La Rumeur can afford the luxury of doing theatre continuously, of doing only theatre. It provides the scenographer with a workshop, a sound engineer with a studio, an administrator with an office, a theatre company with a rehearsal space. That may seem basic, but it is far from that for most groups that often work only with a postal address. The Factory is a place where the production can be concretely put to the test, exposed to the reactions of an audience. Normally, directors and their groups are obliged to know two years in advance what they are going to put up! These are the rules of production and programming. Whereas, here, the project can be decided on at a much later stage. It is also a place where it is possible to innovate within a tight deadline. The projects always fall in line with a desire, a necessity.
The Factory offers professionals the possibility to arrive at the conclusion of their research, to present their preliminary sketches or finished works. This laboratory for theatre and research is a place where artists are no longer burdened with the constraints of production that weigh on professional teams.
"USINAGE" MACHINING
The act of producing, to create a 'part' with a machine tool, to manufacture in a factory, to work hard...
Located along the railway tracks that stretches beside the Seine to the west of Choisy-le-Roi, the Factory welcomes people who have this trait in common, of manufacturing, working, toiling over a part till it is worn down... Why do these people love heading to the Factory, why is this gathering special? It is a story of fusion, of encounters between people, between people and a place, all in all, an ordinary story. But what is not ordinary is that it is a story that lasts... it is undoubtedly the diversity of the people that get together that forms the bond, the diversity of natures, origins, ages. The place has a past that still perhaps infuses the atmosphere that reigns there. Long before the Patrice Bigel/ La Rumeur company established themselves there to work on their 'parts', a tanning company was working on skins to make leather. In French slang, 'to tan' (tanner) means to annoy, to disturb. Theatre too plays this role. It is often said that it bothers, since it entertains and educates people, to take it a step further to say that it 'disturbs' would not be out of place. There is undoubtedly a fusion that functions and connects theatre to the history of the site. This was a willful choice.
Bernard Bolzer.