L’ Addition
by Tim Etchells and Bert & Nasi
 
Direction and text: Tim Etchells
Devised by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
Lighting Design: Alex Fernandes
Music and Sound Design: Graeme Miller
Production: Tim Etchells and Bert & Nasi.
This production is an English version of the French production commissioned by Festival d’ Avignon in 2023.
 
 
On stage: Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
 
 
 
Co-Production original version: Grrranit Scène nationale de Belfort, Centre culturel André Malraux, Scène nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Théâtre de la Manufacture CDN Nancy Lorraine, CCAS, Théâtre Silvia Monfort (Paris), La Vignette Scène conventionnée UniversitéPaul-Valéry (Montpellier), Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune (Aix-en-Provence), Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi, Théâtre Alibi (Bastia)
 
Residencies: Centre social Espace Pluriel-salle de la Barbière (Avignon), The Coronet Theatre (London), Battersea Arts Centre (London), Toynbee Studios (London)
International touring co-produced by Here & Now–Performance
Created in England.

Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. Etchells has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment. Etchells’ work has been shown recently at Cubitt, Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg SPACE in London, at Turner Contemporary and Compton Verney in the UK, at Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands Media Art Institute(Amsterdam) and MUHKA (Antwerp).Currently Professor of Performance & Writing at Lancaster University, he was a Tate / Live Art Development Agency ‘Legacy: Thinker In Residence’ Award winner in 2008, “Artist of the City of Lisbon” in 2014 and he received the prestigious “Spalding Gray Award” in February 2016.
 
Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas are a contemporary performance duo that met in 2015 and have since created an entire repertoire of shows in the midst of a period of national and international austerity. Their work, in turn, is stripped back and minimalist though it deals with complex ideas and emotions, lying somewhere between performance, dance and theatre. In each of their shows, they celebrate the encounter with the audience deconstructing the model of live performance. They always seek to create a sincere and intimate connection with the spectators. Their shows have a nostalgic feel of an old friendship that you didn’t know existed. Together they have performed their shows on the international stages of PuSh Festival (Canada), Festival de Otoño (Spain), Sarajevo Mess (Bosnia), Adelaide International Festival (Australia), In Teatro (Italy), Avignon Festival (France) as well as MiTsp (Brazil). In 2020, Bert & Nasi received the “Forced Entertainment Award” in memory of Huw Chadbourn, which celebrates the work of contemporary artists reinventing theatre and performance in new ways and for new audiences.