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“Love is not enough.”

Winner of the 2013 French Palmarès du Théâtre prize for Best Show (Meilleur spectacle).

Through 20 modern parables of relationships, the deepest contradictions of human nature are explored.

Created in 2013, La Réunification des deux Corées is a mosaic of twenty scenes about the complexity of love. With humor and precision, French playwright Joël Pommerat examines the invisible threads that connect and separate us—desire and disappointment, obsession and indifference, passion and loss. Through a series of intimate yet universal situations, the play becomes a mirror of our emotional contradictions, revealing how fragile and necessary our bonds are. What binds us to others? What drives us apart? Pommerat invites us to reflect on the ideas, fantasies, and fears that give meaning to our relationships—whether romantic, familial, or social.

© Agathe Pommerat

After its acclaimed 2013 premiere, Pommerat returns from the grand scale of revolution to the microcosm of couples and families. Here, he questions not only how we love, but how we coexist. Blending realism with poetic abstraction, La Réunification des deux Corées plunges us into the strangeness of everyday life—so close, yet so mysterious. In this revival, he continues its exploration of what it means to live, love, and imagine together in our fractured modern world.

© Agathe Pommerat

© Agathe Pommerat

© Agathe Pommerat

Credits

With : Ella Benoit, Saadia Bentaïeb, Yannick Choirat, Philippe Frécon, Ruth Olaizola, Marie Piemontese, Anne Rotger, David Sighicelli, Maxime Tshibangu

Theatrical Creation: Joël Pommerat

Scenography and Light: Éric Soyer

Technical Direction: Emmanuel Abate

Assistant Technical Direction: Thaïs Morel

Video: Renaud Rubiano

Props: Thomas Ramon

Costumes: Isabelle Deffin

Wigs: Julie Poulain (2024), Estelle Tolstoukine (2012)

Sound: Philippe Perrin (2024), François Leymarie, Grégoire Leymarie (2012)

Original Music: Antonin Leymarie

Music Recorded by: Joachim Florent (bass/double bass), Jean-Philippe Feiss (cello), Guillaume Magne (bass/guitar), Gérald Chevillon (bass clarinet/sax), Guillaume Dutrieux (voice in tuba/trumpet), Matthieu Ha (voice of the singer), Jeanne Added, Thomas de Pourquery (other voices)

Artistic Collaboration: Lucia Trotta

Assistant Director: Pierre-Yves Le Borgne

Light Engineer: Gwendal Malard

Stage Engineers: Jean-Pierre Costanziello, Héloïse Fizet

Sound Engineer: Yoann Blanchard

Video Engineer: Grégoire Chomel

Supertitles: Jorge Tomé

Dresser: Claire Lezer

Documents Research: Évelyne Pommerat

Sound Research: Alain Besson

Assistant Costumes: Karelle Durand (2012)

Seamstress: Morgane Olivier (2012)

Set Construction: Thomas Ramon – ARTOM (2024) - les Ateliers de l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe with the technicians of Compagnie Louis Brouillard and the technical team of Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (2012)

International Development / Agent: Anne de Amézaga

Administrator: Elsa Blossier

Associate Manager: Magali Briday-Voileau

Production Officer: Alice Caputo

Tour Manager: Pierre-Quentin Derrien

Head of Production: Lorraine Ronsin-Quéchon

Thank you to: Julien Bellver, Gwendal Malard, Cici Olsson, Guillaume Rizzo. Joël Pommerat thanks Monique Pimouguet, Nathalie Dorion, Iman Kerroua, Élodie Subirade, Joséphine Duquesnoy, Maud Gentien, Élise Rochet, Anne-Marie Borée, Solène Dejean, Jérôme Garnier, Julien Desjardins, Frédéric Duten, Loïc Dauphin, Patrick Eisenbeis, Florent Masse et Luc Mouret for their generous contribution to the recreation of sensitive spaces.

One excerpt from « Scenes from a Marriage » by Ingmar Bergman as translated by Lucie Albertini Guillevic and Carl Gustav Bjurströ © Éditions Gallimard

Creation 2013

Created on January 17, 2013 at Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe / Ateliers Berthier.

Production : Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Compagnie Louis Brouillard

Coproduction : Théâtre National–Bruxelles, Folkteatern–Göteborg, Teatro Stabile di Napoli–Naples, Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts du Canada–Ottawa, Centre National de Création et de Diffusion Culturelles de Châteauvallon, la Filature Scène Nationale Mulhouse, les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, le Parapluie (Centre des arts de Rue–Aurillac) en collaboration avec Teatrul National Radu Stanca–Sibiu.

With support from European Union Cultural Program, as part of the Cities on stage/Villes en scène project.

This project was funded with support from the European Commission.

Re-creation 2024

From April 24 to July 14, 2024 at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.

Production : Compagnie Louis Brouillard

Coproduction : Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin ; La Coursive - Scène nationale de La Rochelle ; Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon ; L’Estive – Scène nationale de Foix et de l’Ariège ; L’Azimut, Pôle national cirque d’Antony et de Châtenay-Malabry ; Les Théâtres de Compiègne ; Le Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar ; La Comète - Scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne

Action financed by the Île-de-France Region.

Compagnie Louis Brouillard receives funding from the Ministère de la Culture/DRAC Île-de-France and the Région Île-de-France.

Joël Pommerat and Compagnie Louis Brouillard are associated with Nanterre-Amandiers, La Coursive/Scène nationale de La Rochelle, and TNP/Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne.

Joël Pommerat’s texts are published in France by Actes Sud-Papiers.