EURO 2008 INFO

EURO 2008 contaminates the scene. Four actors will play "Football Factory" room in which hooligans pass to confess. The show will be shown in Lausanne from May 14 to June 6, and in four cities romandes until July 6.

"It is a piece raw and realistic," warns the director Emmanuel Samatani Vaud. "It immerses us in the daily extremist supporters of the team Chelsea."

Focusing on one of the hooligans, the play can destabilize and make them feel uncomfortable. "It is not a provocation for me because it contains positive aspects," says Samatani.

The show can also flatter voyeurism spectators. "But we must go beyond this first level," he said. "The public comes as the hooligan tells its faults, its principles of life. Gradually, the play questions the violence there in all of us, allows comprende mechanisms involved, it does not, however, answers. "

The actors perform roles composition because none is linked to the phenomenon of hooliganism. "We are wise enough!" He says with a laugh. "Our approach aims to bring together the public accustomed to stadiums and the more customary theatres. Then to force the debate." A discussion with the audience will follow each performance.

The play is based on a book by John King published in the UK in 1994 and brought to the screen in 2004 by Nick Love.

This creation of the Company of Seven Places will be played by John Durand, Olivier Renault, Jean-Daniel Uldry and Emmanuel Samatani, which signs the adaptation. Created a decade ago, the company has so far proposed five performances and gave 185 performances.